Improving the Quality of Emergency Care for Opioid Overdose Survivors

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will map the extent to which emergency departments and emergency medical services (EMS) initiate buprenorphine, as well as identify the policy and system-level factors that would increase the uptake of these evidence-based practices. The resulting toolkit and policy recommendations will be targeted to accrediting bodies, payers, state health departments, and hospital associations. The researchers will also document whether and how Medicaid programs across the U.S. pay for EMS-initiated buprenorphine.