作者
Amanda J Abraham, Christina M Andrews, Marissa E Yingling, Jerry Shannon
发表日期
2018/2/1
期刊
Health services research
卷号
53
期号
1
页码范围
389-404
简介
Objective
To examine county‐level geographic variation in treatment admissions among opioid treatment programs (OTPs) that accept Medicaid in the continental United States.
Data Sources/Study Setting
Data come from the 2012 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services.
Study Design/Data Collection
We used local measures of spatial autocorrelation (LISA) analysis to identify (1) clusters of counties with higher and lower than average rates of opioid use disorders and (2) clusters of counties with higher and lower than average treatment admissions among OTPs that accept Medicaid, adjusting for county population size.
Principal Findings
Our results reveal several clusters of counties with higher than average rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and lower than average treatment admissions among OTPs that accept Medicaid. These clusters are highly concentrated in the Southeast region of the …
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