美国退伍军人卫生管理局对物质使用障碍的应急管理:2018-2022年
Lara N Coughlin1, Lan Zhang1, Madeline C Frost2
1Addiction Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America.
Journal of substance use and addiction treatment
|May 12, 2024
概括
应急管理 (CM) 有效地治疗了VA中的物质使用障碍,但大流行病的干扰减少了护理. 增加CM供应对于兴奋剂使用障碍至关重要,因为过量使用率不断上升.
科学领域:
- 成 药物 药物 药物 药物
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 应急管理 (CM) 是对物质使用障碍 (SUDs) 的高度有效干预,特别是兴奋剂使用障碍.
- 退伍军人卫生管理局 (VHA) 已大规模实施CM,但患者特征和临床实践仍未得到充分研究.
- 了解VHA中的CM利用对于优化SUD治疗至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 在VHA中描述性地检查接受CM用于SUD的患者的特征.
- 分析CM治疗过程,包括访问频率,时间和持续时间.
- 评估COVID-19大流行对VHA的CM服务交付的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用VHA电子健康记录数据从2018年到2022年进行的回顾性队列研究.
- 对患者人口统计,SUD诊断,住房状况和CM治疗情节细节的分析.
- 在COVID-19大流行爆发之前和之后的CM访问量比较.
主要成果:
- 2,844名患者在90个VHA站点接受了CM,在86.42%的访问中,兴奋剂是目标物质.
- 中位数的CM治疗涉及超过1.5个月的8次访问;患者年龄较大 (平均年龄在1.5个月内). 52岁),经常经历无家可归 (55.06%),并且有多个SUD (97.50%).
- 在大流行的第一年,总理参观人数下降了83.20%,并没有恢复到大流行前的水平.
结论:
- VHA的CM推出证明了在多个不同站点和复杂的患者群体中成功采用,突出了更广泛实施的潜力.
- 随着COVID-19大流行,CM服务受到严重干扰,导致护理的大量和持续减少.
- 鉴于与兴奋剂相关的过量的增加,迫切需要在VHA和其他环境中扩大CM服务,因为目前的覆盖范围有限.
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