Tailoring dissemination strategies to increase evidence-informed policymaking for opioid use disorder treatment: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Policy is a powerful tool for systematically altering healthcare access and quality, but the research to policy gap impedes translating evidence-based practices into public policy and limits widespread improvements in service and population health outcomes. The US opioid epidemic disproportionately impacts Medicaid members who rely on publicly funded benefits to access evidence-based treatment including medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). A myriad of misaligned policies and evidence-use behaviors by policymakers across federal agencies, state Medicaid agencies, and managed care organizations limit coverage of and access to MOUD for Medicaid members. Dissemination strategies that improve policymakers' use of current evidence are critical to improving MOUD benefits

SUBMITTER: Crable EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936679 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature