The rate of opioid overdose deaths continues to climb across the United States with over 80,000 deaths reported in 2021. Engaging patients in treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) through management of opioid withdrawal and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) during an inpatient hospitalization presents an opportunity to address this troubling trend. Launched in 2019, we have developed a multidisciplinary inpatient OUD program which has created a consult service for inpatient providers to contact when patients with OUD are admitted, established a network of community treatment providers so patients can continue their treatment upon discharge, and created trainings and informatics tools to streamline the process to access OUD information & make evidence-based decisions. This scholarly opportunity will allow the student to work with the mentors to design a retrospective analysis of some aspect of the OUD consult service and engage in further process improvement initiatives. Prospective work (survey data, qualitative evaluation) is also possible.

-Evaluate the impact, successes and limitations of the Opioid Use Consult Service in treating hospitalized patients with OUD

-Use past work to inform future directions for the OUD Consult Service

Retrospective evaluation using OUD consult service data from the preceding 3 years

Excel

Word

Additional statistical software will be obtained as needed

Society of General Internal Medicine

Society of Hospital Medicine

American Society of Addiction Medicine

AMERSA