Shorter outpatient wait-times for buprenorphine are associated with linkage to care post-hospital discharge

Inpatient addiction consult services (ACS) lower barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), however not every patient recommended for MOUD links to outpatient care. We hypothesized that fewer days between discharge date and outpatient appointment date was associated with improved linkage to buprenorphine treatment among patients evaluated by an ACS.We extracted appointment and demographic data from electronic medical...