Physicians’ Decision-making When Implementing Buprenorphine with New Patients: Conjoint Analyses of Data from a Cohort of Current Prescribers

摘要

ObjectivesFew studies have considered how providers make decisions to prescribe buprenorphine to new patients with opioid use disorder. This study examined the relative importance of patients’ clinical, financial, and social characteristics on physicians’ decision-making related to willingness to prescribe buprenorphine to new patients and the number of weeks of medication that they are willing to initially prescribe after induction.