Patterns of Health Care Use 5 Years After an Intervention Linking Patients in Addiction Treatment With a Primary Care Practitioner.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Substance use disorders are associated with high rates of emergency department (ED) use and challenges engaging with primary care services.

Objective

To examine 5-year health care engagement and utilization outcomes for participants in the LINKAGE trial, given previously reported associations of LINKAGE with improved care engagement in the short term.

Design, setting, and participants

In this post hoc analysis of a nonrandomized controlled trial, participants were assigned to the LINKAGE or usual care (UC) groups using a nonrandomized 3-month alternating off and on strategy over 30 months. Baseline through 5-year follow-up data were collected from April 2011 to October 2018. The trial was conducted at an urban outpatient addiction treatment clinic within a

SUBMITTER: Iturralde E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9650610 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature