Adding Nurse Care Managers in Primary Care Boosted OUD Treatment

MedPage Today October 31, 2023
Shannon Firth

— Support from leadership and treatment coverage are also critical, authors say

Integrating nurse care managers into primary care teams significantly increased access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment compared with usual care, a cluster randomized trial showed.

In the Primary Care Opioid Use Disorders Treatment (PROUD) trial, clinics that utilized the Massachusetts model of nurse care management provided 8.2 more patient-years of OUD treatment per 10,000 primary care patients compared with usual care clinics (95% CI 5.4 to ∞, P=0.002), reported Paige Wartko, PhD, MPH, of Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, and colleagues in JAMA Internal Medicineopens in a new tab or window.

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