About The Study: The results of this study indicated that clinical outcomes were similar among patients with opioid use disorder who were treated by clinicians with high and low telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that telemedicine is a comparable alternative to in-person opioid use disorder care. There was no evidence that telemedicine was associated with increased access to or improved quality of opioid use disorder treatment.
Authors: Michael L. Barnett, M.D., M.S., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.
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