Substance use disorder approaches in US primary care clinics with national reputations as workforce innovators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the last decade, primary care clinics in the United States have responded both to national policies encouraging clinics to support substance use disorders (SUD) service expansion and to regulations aiming to curb the opioid epidemic.

Objective

To characterize approaches to SUD service expansion in primary care clinics with national reputations as workforce innovators.

Methods

Comparative case studies were conducted to characterize different approaches among 12 primary care clinics purposively and iteratively recruited from a national registry of workforce innovators. Observational field notes and qualitative interviews from site visits were coded and analysed to identify and characterize clinic attributes.

Results

Codes describing clinic SUD exp

SUBMITTER: O'Malley DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8956130 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature