Evaluating the Impact of the Bridge Clinic in Patients With Opioid Use Disorder

Evaluating the Impact of the Bridge Clinic in Patients With Opioid Use Disorder

This study aims to determine whether referral to the Bridge Clinic reduces overall index hospital length of stay when compared to direct referral to a long-term outpatient addiction provider for patients with active opioid use disorder (OUD) being considered for medications-for-addiction treatment (MAT).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Inpatients at VUH with active OUD being considered for MAT.
• Patient accepting a transitional prescription for buprenorphine-naloxone or IM naltrexone whose outpatient plans are not fixed

Exclusion Criteria:

• Deemed ineligible for referral to outpatient Bridge Clinic by the Addiction Consult Team (examples include but are not limited to patients with severe, active co-occurring psychiatric disorders requiring a higher level of psychiatric care or patients for whom methadone maintenance is deemed the best choice of MAT).
• Patients previously randomized in this study.