Support Hospital Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (SHOUT) ECHO
Program Description
The opioid epidemic has broadly impacted communities and healthcare systems. As morbidity and mortality related to opioids have increased, so have hospital admissions related to opioid and intravenous drug use including skin and soft tissue infections, heart infections, severe withdrawal symptoms and more. Complications of drug use may lead to complex and prolonged hospitalizations. Hospitalization is a reachable moment and an important opportunity to increase access to opioid use disorder (OUD) management, treatment and harm reduction. Inpatient acute care environments are uniquely and well-positioned to help patients with substance use disorders as part of hospitalization. Join this learning community to learn how to leverage a patient’s time in the hospital or other acute care settings to address OUD.
Who is this ECHO for?
All interprofessional hospital-based practitioners and care team members with an interest in developing their knowledge of hospital-based medications for opioid use disorder.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the need/business case for treating OUD in the hospital setting.
- Illustrate the process for starting buprenorphine therapy for hospitalized patients.
- Develop a clinical care management plan for acute and perioperative pain for patients engaged in pharmacotherapy for OUD.
- Formulate cross-disciplinary care between hospital medicine, general surgeons, anesthesia
and others. - Describe current models for improved care of hospitalized patients with OUD.
- Describe how stigma limits access to care for people with OUD.
- Discuss actionable steps that can be taken to reduce stigma.
SHOUT Texas
Support Hospital Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (SHOUT) Texas is a program at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with Be Well Texas, a program of UT Health San Antonio, working to increase access to substance and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and harm reduction during acute hospitalization in Texas.
The UT Health San Antonio Science Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity with AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
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Hub Members
Alanna Boulton, MSHS, MSHA, PMP
Health Systems Science Program Manager, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
Subject Matter Expertise:
Program design and implementation, healthcare planning and administration, hospital-based addiction treatment, stigma reduction
Nicholaus “Nick” Christian, MD, MBA
Staff Clinician, Office of the Clinical Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program
Subject Matter Expertise:
Hospital-based addiction medicine, outpatient addiction medicine, addiction medicine education, community-based participatory research
Blair Walker, MD
Chief of Psychiatry, Dell Seton Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
Subject Matter Expertise:
Hospital-based addiction treatment, consult-liaison psychiatry, addiction medicine, addiction medicine education
John Weems-Embers, MD
Associate Director of Addiction Medicine, CommUnityCare Health Centers
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
Subject Matter Expertise:
Hospital-based addiction medicine, outpatient addiction medicine, addiction medicine education, indigent care access
Jananie Ramesh, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
Subject Matter Expertise:
Hospital-based addiction medicine, internal medicine, quality and process improvement