A Cost-Effectiveness of Implementation Facilitation to Promote Emergency Department–Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Implementation facilitation shows promise in promoting buprenorphine treatment in the emergency department.

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Thanh Lu, PhD

Grand Rounds vs Implementation Facilitation

The Value of Implementation Facilitation

From the perspective of the healthcare-sector, IF has a moderate-to-high likelihood of being a cost-effective strategy to initiate buprenorphine in an ED setting.

The findings were in favor of IF:

The cost-effectiveness acceptability curves demonstrate the likelihood of IF’s cost-effectiveness, relative to standard education, across a range of willingness-to-pay thresholds for the effectiveness measure of interest.