Research assesses how patient characteristics affect opioid treatment receipt and retention, suggesting implications for health systems.
Associations between patient characteristics and OAT receipt and retention suggest three patterns: cumulative disadvantage with factors associated with both lower treatment and retention; uneven disadvantage for factors associated with either decreased treatment or retention; and inverse associations wherein factors showed benefit in one stage but disadvantage in the other.
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