Peer support specialists can link patients with substance use disorders to treatment, but this study showed disparate outcomes for how one program impacted access to care for Black and white patients.
This study identifies facilitators and barriers of hospital- and community-based harm reduction collaboration efforts and highlights hospital-based opportunities to better serve people who use drugs.
This self-assessment tool can help harm reduction program leadership assess internal and external financing strategies to support and strengthen their programs.
Care management interventions for people transitioning from behavioral health inpatient care may be successful in decreasing readmissions if they address health-related social needs.
Primary care medical home improved use of preventive services, chronic illness care, care experience, psychotic symptoms, and mental health-related quality of life for people with serious mental illness.
Interdisciplinary primary care models can help reduce acute care use for individuals with histories of high emergency department use, homelessness, or substance use disorder.
Care management interventions demonstrated improvements in mental health, quality of life, and patient satisfaction as well as reduced psychiatric inpatient days for people with serious mental illness.
This free, paper-based version of the nationally-recognized ASAM Criteria assessment is available to clinicians to increase the quality and consistency of patient assessments and treatment recommendations for adults with substance use disorder.
A hospital-based program showed that peer recovery coaching can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of busy emergency departments to address the longer-term needs of people with substance use disorders.
A participatory design approach created a nurse-driven screening process to better identify and treat people with opioid use disorder in the emergency department.
Inpatient addiction medicine consultation services reduced 90-day mortality for patients with substance use disorder after a hospital discharge, but showed mixed results on acute care utilization.
While telehealth has the potential to increase access to treatment for opioid use disorder, barriers still exist for patients and providers in receiving and delivering virtual care.
A community-based care transition and management intervention showed improved outcomes for patients transitioning to outpatient community care following a psychiatric hospitalization.