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Table 1 Characteristics of participants among MOUD non-initiators and initiators

From: Hospital-based clinicians lack knowledge and comfort in initiating medications for opioid use disorder: opportunities for training innovation

 

Total

Non-Initiators n (%)

Initiators n (%)

p-value

Total

143 (100)

65 (100)

78 (100)

 

Gender

0.343a

    Male

51 (36)

22 (34)

29 (37)

 

    Female

90 (63)

41 (63)

49 (63)

 

    Decline to answer

2 (1)

2 (3)

0 (0)

 

Clinician specialty

0.092a

    Family medicine

3 (2)

3 (5)

0 (0)

 

    Internal medicine

140 (98)

62 (95)

78 (100)

 

Clinician type

0.005b

    Physician

82 (57)

29 (45)

53 (68)

 

    Physician assistant

61 (43)

36 (55)

25 (32)

 

 Years since completion medical training, median [Q1, Q3]

9 [4, 14]

10 [5, 14]

7 [4, 14]

0.207c

  > 50% Time inpatient care

98 (69)

43 (66)

55 (71)

0.576b

 Access to addiction consult service

120 (84)

55 (85)

65 (83)

0.835b

 Completed buprenorphine waiver training

46 (32)

14 (21)

32 (41)

0.013b

  1. aFisher’s exact test
  2. bChi-squared test
  3. cKruskall-Wallis test