Validation and endorsement of health system performance measures for opioid use disorder in British Columbia, Canada: A Delphi panel study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited data exists on the performance of the healthcare system in opioid use disorder (OUD). We evaluated the face validity and potential risks of a set of health system performance measures for OUD collaboratively with clinicians, policymakers and people with lived experience of opioid use (PWLE) in the interest of establishing an endorsed set of measures for public reporting.

Methods

Through a two-stage Delphi-panel approach, a panel of clinical and policy experts validated and considered 102 previously constructed OUD performance measures for endorsement using information on measurement construction, sensitivity analyses, quality of evidence, predictive validity, and feedback from local PWLE. We collected quantitative and qualitative survey responses from 49 c

SUBMITTER: Kamran H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9948861 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature