Futurity July 18, 2024
Telemedicine referrals can be a more effective way than in-person emergency department visits to get people with opioid use disorder to start and stay with medication assisted treatment through an outpatient clinic, according to a new study.
It is believed to be the first study comparing telemedicine referrals to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) to referrals initiated at the emergency department.
“Telemedicine evaluations by emergency medicine providers did lead to increased retention in treatment at 30 days when compared to patients evaluated in the emergency department,” says Joshua J. Lynch, an associate professor in the emergency medicine department in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and first author of the study published...
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