{"id":3849,"date":"2021-02-10T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:45:24","slug":"reduction-in-oregons-medication-dosing-visits-after-the-sars-cov-2-relaxation-of-restrictions-on-take-home-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/reduction-in-oregons-medication-dosing-visits-after-the-sars-cov-2-relaxation-of-restrictions-on-take-home-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduction in Oregon\u2019s Medication Dosing Visits After the SARS-CoV-2 Relaxation of Restrictions on Take-Home Medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opioid treatment programs in Oregon saw a reduction in medication dosing visits and an increase in take-home doses dispensed following a relaxation of restrictions on take-home medication dosing that were intended to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2. During the pre-SARS-CoV-2 period (February and early March 2020), patients made a mean of 16 visits per month to opioid treatment programs, with 6 take-home doses per patient per month. Following the policy change, medication visits declined 33% and take-home medication increased 97% with a mean of 10 visits per patient and a mean of 11 take-homes per patient.<\/p>\n<p><i>McIlveen et al. (Feb 5, 2021). Reduction in Oregon\u2019s Medication Dosing Visits After the SARS-CoV-2 Relaxation of Restrictions on Take-Home Medication. Journal of Addiction Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33560697\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33560697<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opioid treatment programs in Oregon saw a reduction in medication dosing visits and an increase in take-home doses dispensed following a relaxation of restrictions on take-home medication dosing that were intended to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2. During the pre-SARS-CoV-2 period (February and early March 2020), patients made a mean of 16 visits per month&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/10\/reduction-in-oregons-medication-dosing-visits-after-the-sars-cov-2-relaxation-of-restrictions-on-take-home-medication\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-home-care","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}