Using a quality improvement framework to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a patient-reported outcome measure for recovery in an office-based treatment setting for opioid use disorder
Elisabeth Okrant, Sharon Reif, Genie L Bailey, Constance M Horgan, Margaret T Lee, Madeline A Brown, Blaire L Simas, Karen A Alfaro, Grant A Ritter · 2025
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Elisabeth Okrant and co-authors test whether a recovery questionnaire can fit everyday care at a community clinic treating opioid addiction, in a 2025 paper. Questionnaires that let patients report their own progress can sharpen treatment decisions, and recovery is an outcome only the patient can truly report. The clinic ran an office-based buprenorphine program at a federally qualified health center, and the team tried adding a recovery measure called R2AR to its routine.
Working fully remotely, the team studied how the measure fit the clinic's workflow and what staff and clients made of it, sorting lessons with a quality-improvement framework. Three barriers stood out, among them the need for a local champion to drive the change and the need to teach both clients and providers, shifting habits on both sides. The paper distills what other clinics should expect when adopting patient-reported measures.
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| CREATOR | Elisabeth Okrant, Sharon Reif, Genie L Bailey, Constance M Horgan, Margaret T Lee, Madeline A Brown, Blaire L Simas, Karen A Alfaro, Grant A Ritter |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |