PURPOSE Primary care providers (PCPs) may feel ill-equipped to effectively and safely
manage patients with chronic pain, an addiction, or both. This study evaluated a …

Methods: We used a hermeneutic phenomenologic approach to capture the lived experience
of 12 current and nine previous attendees of the “Information Mastery” course through …

Information mastery is an approach to applying the methods of evidence-based medicine to
everyday practice. The aim of this research is to describe concepts identified by clinicians …

… Data were analysed by the authors and Randi G. Sokol and Jessica Early (see
acknowledgements). All authors were involved in the interpretation of the results. AFS wrote the first …

Background Opioid use disorder (OUD) has become a public health crisis in the US, and
there is a need to develop effective clinical treatment strategies. Coupling buprenorphine/…

… Randi Sokol, MD: contributed to conception and design of the study, interpretation of the
results, and writing and revising of the manuscript. Chiara Albanese: contributed to …

Background: In March 2019, our health system launched a project called Linking MATTERS
(Medication for Addiction Treatment linkage Through Emergency depaRtmentS) to initiate …

Background Group-Based Opioid Treatment (GBOT) has recently emerged as a mechanism
for treating patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the outpatient setting. However, the …

Our goal was to determine the extent to which recommendations for primary care practice are
informed by high-quality research-based evidence, and the extent to which they are based …

Background: Group-based models of Office-Based Opioid Treatment with buprenorphine-naloxone
(B/N) are increasingly being implemented in clinical practice to increase access to …