Prescribe to Save Lives: Improving Buprenorphine Prescribing Among HIV Clinicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

HIV clinicians are uniquely positioned to treat their patients with opioid use disorder using buprenorphine to prevent overdose death. The Prescribe to Save Lives (PtSL) study aimed to increase HIV clinicians' buprenorphine prescribing via an overdose prevention intervention.

Methods

The quasi-experimental stepped-wedge study enrolled 22 Ryan White-funded HIV clinics and delivered a peer-to-peer training to clinicians with follow-up academic detailing that included overdose prevention education and introduced buprenorphine prescribing. Site-aggregated electronic medical record (EMR) data measured with the change in X-waivered clinicians and patients prescribed buprenorphine. Clinicians completed surveys preintervention and at 6- and 12-month postintervention that

SUBMITTER: Jawa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9283214 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature