Treatment for opioid use disorder in the Florida medicaid population: Using a cascade of care model to evaluate quality.

Conclusions: Initiating medication after OUD diagnosis offers the greatest opportunity for intervention to reduce overdose deaths, though efforts to increase retention are also warranted. Analyzing claims data with CoC identifies system functioning for specific populations, and suggests policies and clinical pathways to target for improvement.
PMID: 33054435 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - October 15, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: Johnson K, Hills H, Ma J, Brown CH, McGovern M Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research