Back to Search
Start Over
Can monitoring consumer requests for opioid-replacement therapy improve access to treatment?
- Source :
- Australian Health Review; 2014, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p312-317, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
-
Abstract
- Objective. This study examined data recorded by one urban publicly funded opioid-replacement therapy clinic (from 2009 to 2011) to identify whether these data could be used to inform the rostering of clinicians more effectively to improve access to treatment. Methods. Data analysis incorporated descriptive and inferential methods. Results. There were trends in the times of the year consumers seek opioid-replacement therapy, similarity and differences between gender requests for treatment and variation in consumer wait time on triage. Conclusions. National reporting of opioid-replacement therapy triages would help gain a better understanding of the number of people in need of treatment. If opioid-replacement therapy providers monitored consumer triages, they could roster more effectively, have gender-specific clinicians available, acknowledge and inform consumers of wait time on triage and allow re-orientation of services to lower wait time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- THERAPEUTIC use of narcotics
CHI-squared test
CONSUMERS
DRUG prescribing
HEALTH facilities
HEALTH services accessibility
HEALTH policy
QUALITY assurance
RESEARCH funding
SEASONS
SEX distribution
TIME
MEDICAL triage
DECISION making in clinical medicine
PHYSICIAN practice patterns
TREND analysis
DISEASE prevalence
CONSUMER activism
RETROSPECTIVE studies
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
INFERENTIAL statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01565788
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australian Health Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 96384772
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/AH13212