Originally published by our sister publication Pain Medicine News
Screening for opioid use disorder (OUD) during routine primary care visits didn’t increase new patient diagnoses in a “clinically meaningful way,” according to new findings.
Researchers performed a cluster randomized OUD treatment trial of 20 diverse primary care clinics (Ann Intern Med 2023; 176[10]:1431-1433). OUD-related questions from the modified Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test, from