The California Bridge Resources page is a searchable database of California Bridge’s evidence-based materials including clinical guides, protocols, toolkits, sample patient materials, and FAQs. All resources in the California Bridge database have been developed by interdisciplinary teams based on published evidence and expert opinion. Continue reading
Resource Tag: Hospitals
Toolkit: State Strategies to Support Substance Use Disorder Treatment in the Primary Care Safety Net
This report on state strategies to support substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in Federally Qualified Health Centers(FQHCs) describes policy innovations and lessons learned from FQHCs in 5 states: Alabama, Illinois, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin. Continue reading
Opioid Safety for Hospital Clinicians
This website from the University of Massachusetts’s Division of Medical Toxicology contains several training videos on opioid safety for hospital providers. The 5 instructional videos are intended to educate providers on common pitfalls and evidence-based strategies for safe administration of opioids in the inpatient, hospital setting. Continue reading
Approaches to Treating Serious Infection in People Who Inject Drugs: Evidence and Policies
This review looks at evidence and program models for alternatives to hospitalization to treat serious infections in people who inject drugs. Continue reading
Resources to Treat Substance Use Disorder in the Acute Care Setting
This toolkit contains clinical materials targeting treatment of substance use disorder in the acute care setting. It includes resources for hospital clinicians to adopt including clinical protocols, information about medication assisted treatment and induction protocols, treating patients with justice involvement, Continue reading
How Community Health Centers are Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
This case study profiles how a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in New York provides integrated medical and behavioral health care services for individuals with opioid addiction. Continue reading
ED-Initiated Buprenorphine – Resources for Providers
The Yale School of Medicine’s website contains comprehensive resources for providers interested in setting up a program to initiate buprenorphine treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) seen in the emergency department (ED). Continue reading
COVID-19
The COVID-19 public health emergency is particularly challenging for people in treatment for substance use disorder, people in recovery, and people who use drugs. This collection features educational resources that can be adapted for local settings, specific guidance on harm reduction, recovery housing and providing peer support services during the pandemic, and links to websites that provide high-quality information, data, and/or examples for local communities to adopt. Continue reading
Montefiore Health System COVID-19 Toolkit for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Montefiore Health System created this toolkit for its prescribers and staff to manage access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment including medications during the COVID-19 pandemic. This toolkit includes the following materials that may serve as templates for other hospital systems or clinician practices during this national emergency: Continue reading
EPIC Template: Telemedicine Documentation in Progress Notes
This document provides a template for an EPIC electronic health record note for documenting that the service was provided via telemedicine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading