U.S., June 18 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07024498) titled 'Coordinating Outpatient bupreNorphiNe for Emergency Care and Continuing Treatment' on May 29.
Brief Summary: The main purpose of this stepped wedge trial will be to test the impact of a bundle of implementation strategies designed to improve ED-outpatient care coordination on long-term buprenorphine retention among adult patients who start buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in a hospital emergency department (ED) and then are referred for continued outpatient buprenorphine treatment after they leave the ED. Our hypothesis is that adopting the bundle of implementation strategies will be associated with subsequent increases in:
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