Filter
Filter
Understanding Inequitable Healthcare: Methodological Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
This paper considers methodological approaches that can help better understand inequity in healthcare, focusing on five key domains: availability, patient-centeredness, access, effectiveness, and implementation. We…
Rollout Trial Designs in Implementation Research are Often Necessary and Sometimes Preferred
Background: Rollout designs, which include stepped wedge designs, are defined by staggered implementation of new or alternative programs or services. Critiques of stepped wedge and…
The Difference-Making Role of Staff Support in Implementing Nurse Care Management for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: A Configurational Analysis.
Introduction: Understanding conditions in which interventions succeed or fail is critical. The PRimary care Opioid Use Disorders treatment (PROUD) trial, a cluster-randomized hybrid study, tested…
A Framework for Designing Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Digital Health Interventions
This article proposes methods for designing randomized controlled trials studying the implementation and effectiveness of digital interventions, meaning websites or applications (“apps”) that patients use…
Effectiveness of Mutual Health Groups for Illicit Drug Use Disorders: A Review of the Current Literature
Purpose of Review: Evaluate literature examining whether mutual help groups (MHGs) for illicit drug use disorders benefit participants. Recent Findings: Recent studies consistently show that…
US Payment Policy for Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder: Landscape and Opportunities
Offering patients medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is the standard of care for opioid use disorder (OUD), but an estimated 75%–90% of people with…
Model-Driven Decision Support: A Community-Based Meta-Implementation Strategy to Predict Population Impact.
Purpose: Standard tools for public health decision making such as data dashboards, trial repositories, and intervention briefs may be necessary but insufficient for guiding community…
Overdose Deaths Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a US County
Globally, overdose deaths increased near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which created availability and access barriers to addiction and social services. Especially in times…
Contingency Management Needs Implementation Science
The gap between the evidence for contingency management (CM) and patients’ ability to access it is so dire that, in Fall of 2021, the New…
Effective, but Underused: Lessons Learned Implementing Contingency Management in real-world Practice settings in the United States
Despite being one of the most effective adjunctive behavioral interventions in combination with medication for opioid use disorder, contingency management (CM) is one of the…