- Title
- Can monitoring consumer requests for opioid-replacement therapy improve access to treatment?
- Creator
- Harlow, Warren; Happell, Brenda; Browne, Graeme; Browne, Matthew
- Relation
- Australian Health Review Vol. 38, Issue 3, p. 312-317
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH13212
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Objective: This study examined data recorded by one urban publicly funded opioid-replacement therapy clinic (from 2009 to 2011) to identify whether these data could be used to inform the rostering of clinicians more effectively to improve access to treatment. Methods: Data analysis incorporated descriptive and inferential methods. Results: There were trends in the times of the year consumers seek opioid-replacement therapy, similarity and differences between gender requests for treatment and variation in consumer wait time on triage. Conclusions: National reporting of opioid-replacement therapy triages would help gain a better understanding of the number of people in need of treatment. If opioid-replacement therapy providers monitored consumer triages, they could roster more effectively, have gender-specific clinicians available, acknowledge and inform consumers of wait time on triage and allow re-orientation of services to lower wait time.
- Subject
- management; wait time
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1303118
- Identifier
- uon:20612
- Identifier
- ISSN:0156-5788
- Language
- eng
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