Building a hospital-based addiction medicine consultation service in Vancouver, Canada: the path taken and lessons learned.

Vivian Braithwaite Lianping TiNadia FairbairnKeith AhamadMark McLeanScott HarrisonEvan WoodSeonaid Nolan

Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2021)

After St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada was restructured in 2014 to a large, interdisciplinary addiction medicine consultation service (AMCS), the AMCS saw a 228% increase in the number of consultation requests with more than half of requests originating from the emergency department. Approximately two-thirds of consultation requests were for opioid or stimulant use.

Keyphrases

palliative care
emergency department
healthcare
mental health
chronic pain
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
pain management
adverse drug
acute care
drug induced