Expanding access to medications for opioid use disorder through locally-initiated implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite demonstrated efficacy, medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) remain inaccessible to many patients, with barriers identified at the individual, clinic and system level. A wide array of implementation strategies have guided efforts to expand access to MOUD, with most centered around externally-facilitated approaches to practice change. While effective, such approaches may be inaccessible to those clinics and systems that lack the resources necessary to partner with an external team, suggesting a need to identify and describe change-processes that are internally developed and promoted.

Methods

Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we utilized qualitative interviews and ethnographic observation to investigate th

SUBMITTER: Wyse JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9207874 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature