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Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Treated in Emergency Departments Shed Light on Their Unmet Needs and Opportunities to Improve Care in Yale-Led Study Published in JAMA Network Open
To better understand the experiences of patients with OUD on receiving care in the ED and to identify opportunities to improve care, Yale researchers led a collaboration with New York University, John’s Hopkins University, University of Cincinnati, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and the University of Washington. Between June 2018 and January 2019. They conducted focus groups with ED patients across six academic, community, and public safety net EDs in Baltimore, MD, Cincinnati, OH, New York City, NY, Seattle, WA and Claremont, NH, as part of two NIDA Clinical Trials Network studies.