The Improving Addiction Care Team – IMPACT

Evidence Ranking: Promising

This collection compiles research and implementation materials from the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). IMPACT is an interprofessional, hospital-based addictions team that provides addiction medicine consults to patients being treated at OHSU who have a substance use disorder (SUD). Hospitals treat many patients with complications from SUD such as endocarditis (inflammation of the heart lining), soft issue infections, and traumatic injuries, but most do not offer services or resources that address the underlying cause – the SUD itself. With IMPACT, inpatient medical and surgical providers and hospital social workers can refer patients with known or suspected SUD to receive services from the IMPACT team. Services include a comprehensive SUD assessment, a process to help the patient set patient-centered goals for their treatment, induction onto medication assisted treatment, direct connections to community based SUD treatment, and information about harm reduction strategies such as safe injection protocols, information about HIV prevention and prophylaxis, and education about naloxone for overdose referral.

This collection includes a summary of the research on IMPACT that has been published in peer-reviewed journals and references to those articles, a brief video explaining the program, a summary of the program from the American Hospital Association, and a number of implementation tools and hospital policies that support the IMPACT model that were previously published as an appendix to a 2019 article in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The materials included in this collection are:

Thanks to Dr. Honora Englander and her team at OHSU for letting us feature this collection.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) – A Summary

Evidence Ranking: Promising

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

The Improving Addiction Care Team, or IMPACT, is an interprofessional hospital-based addictions team that meets people with substance use disorder (SUD) during the reachable moment of hospitalization at Oregon Health & Science University.

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Project IMPACT at OHSU

Source: Oregon Health & Science University

This 3 minute video describes Project IMPACT (Improving Addiction Care Team) operating at Oregon Health and Science University. The video includes program director Honora Englander, M.D., Melissa Weimer, D.O. and peer-recovery counselor O’Nesha Cochran.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Medications to Treat Substance use Disorders

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This resource serves as a guide to beginning medication assisted treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder or alcohol use disorder in the hospital setting. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program, which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): OHSU Pharmacy and Therapeutics Policy on use of Medication to Treat Opioid Use Disorder (Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Patients)

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This resource is Oregon Health & Science University’s pharmacy and therapeutics policy on the use of medications (methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone) for opioid withdrawal management or opioid maintenance therapy in patients with opioid use disorder who are hospitalized or seen in the emergency department.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Approach to Acute Pain Management in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder

Source: 2019

This resource is a guide to treating acute pain in individuals with opioid use disorder seen in the hospital setting. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Template for ASAM SUD Assessment

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This document provides a template for substance use disorder assessment as used by Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT). IMPACT provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Social Work PICC Community Safety Assessment

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This template is of a social work assessment for safe discharge of patients using a PICC line to receive medications used by Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT). IMPACT provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Outpatient Parental Antibiotic Therapy

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This resource serves as Project IMPACT’s guide to conducting a patient care conference to consider hospital discharge planning for patients receiving intravenous antibiotic therapy. This guide lists the steps for convening and conducting the conference and includes a meeting guide and note template.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Patient Safety Care Plan

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This resource is a patient safety care plan for patients treated in this hospital who have substance use disorders. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Template for Relapse Prevention Plan

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This guide speaks with patients who use drugs about harm reduction strategies such as safe injection tips, HIV prevention and prophylaxis, and naloxone to treat opioid overdose. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program, which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Approach to Harm Reduction

Source: Dr. Honora Englander

This resource serves as a guide to speaking with patients who use drugs about harm reduction strategies such as safe injection tips, HIV prevention and prophylaxis, and naloxone to treat opioid overdose. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.

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