Emergency Department-initiated Interventions for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder: A Systematic Review.
Janusz KaczorowskiJaunathan BilodeauAaron M OrkinKathryn DongRaoul DaoustAndrew KestlerPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2020)
Emergency departments can be an appropriate setting for initiating opioid agonist treatment, but to be sustained, it likely needs to be coupled with community-based follow-up and support to ensure longer-term retention. The scarcity of high-quality evidence on OUD interventions initiated in emergency settings highlights the need for future research.