Using Clinical Decision Support to Provide Social Risk-Informed Care for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department
University of California, San Francisco
Summary
The overarching goal of this proposal is to integrate patient social risk information into an existing electronic health record (EHR)-based clinical decision support (CDS) tool (CDSv1) to facilitate emergency department (ED)-initiated, social risk-informed opioid use disorder (OUD) medication treatment and ultimately improve treatment adherence and follow up. The investigators will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the social care-enhanced CDS tool, CDSv2, (compared to CDSv1) at a single study site (UCSF) as an intervention to increase medication treatment adherence and follow up for adult ED patients experiencing opioid use disorder using a mixed-methods, before-after approach.
Description
Over 2.7 million people suffer from opioid use disorder (OUD) in the United States (US), resulting in more than 80,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2021. Medications for opioid use disorder are underused disproportionately in patients living in poverty, whose unmet food, housing, and transportation needs impede access to medications and routine healthcare. Emergency departments (EDs) are the primary (and often only) healthcare access points for vulnerable populations with social needs, including people with OUD. In response, healthcare professional organizations have increasingly called for ED-in…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion criteria: * All University of California, San Francisco ED providers (residents, attendings, advanced practice providers) who have used either CDSv1 or CDSv2 will be eligible to participate in surveys and interviews regarding feasibility and acceptability. * English-speaking patients ≥18 years of age presenting to the UCSF ED with opioid use disorder who receive medication treatment (as a result of CDSv1 or CDSv2) will be eligible to participate. Exclusion criteria: \- Participants will be excluded if: * they have a medical or psychiatric condition requiring hospitalization at th…
Interventions
- OtherED-Based Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Use Disorder
The original clinical decision support (CDS) tool, EMergency department initiated BuprenorphinE for opioid use Disorder or EMBED, was designed by researchers at Yale to support emergency department (ED) clinicians with varying levels of experience prescribing buprenorphine for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). The tool alerts ED providers of a patient who is potentially eligible for MOUD using Epic's storyboard. The provider must then click on the notification to open the OUD evaluation tool, which has multiple components: OUD assessment, OUD diagnosis, withdrawal assessment, and readiness for treatment. These components are then paired with an orderset, "ED Opioid Use Disorder Treatment" that includes nursing orders, prescriptions for buprenorphine and ancillary medications, and substance use disorder discharge resources.
- OtherSocial Care-Enhanced Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Use Disorder
The investigators will use human-centered design to adapt the basic CDS tool to incorporate patient social needs, involving patients, staff, and end-user ED clinicians in the iterative design process. This tool is being actively developed.
Location
- University of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco, California