Large Variation in Provincial Guidelines for Urine Drug Screening During Opioid Agonist Treatment in Canada

Guidelines
by
Moss, Eloise et al

Release Date

2018

Geography

Canada

Language of Resource

English

Full Text Available

Yes

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

No

Peer Reviewed

Yes

Objective

We conducted a policy scan of UDS guidelines, examining the published clinical practice guidelines for each Canadian province and extracting all relevant data in March 2017.

Findings/Key points

UDS frequency recommendations vary greatly among Provinces for persons receiving opioid agonist therapy for opioid use disorder.

Link to a not-final full-text version: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6217853/

Design/methods

Policy scan

Keywords

Clinical guidance
Substitution/OAT
About prescribers