Inpatient care provider perspectives on the development and implementation of an addiction medicine consultation service in a small urban setting

Original research
by
Beckett, Madelaine, Ramm Hering & Karen Urbanoski

Release Date

2022

Geography

Canada

Language of Resource

English

Full Text Available

Yes

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Yes

Peer Reviewed

Yes

Objective

To evaluate provider perspectives on the development and implementation of an inpatient Addiction Medicine Consult Service, including their awareness of the service, its perceived role in the continuum of care, and changes over time in their perceptions of care quality for inpatients with substance use disorders.

Findings/Key points

Providers had generally positive perceptions of the service and its impact on care quality, but encountered significant barriers at both time points in meeting patient needs (related to high patient complexity and difficulty connecting patients with community services post-discharge). Relative to physicians and social workers, nurses were less likely to be familiar with the service or see it as beneficial.

Design/methods

Repeated cross-sectional survey

Keywords

About prescribers
Hospitals
Small/medium cities