Emergency Department Bridge Programs allow ED physicians to connect patients in the ED with comprehensive addiction care. While the benefits of bridge programs for patients with opioid use disorder are known, what’s less understood is how these programs affect the lives of the providers themselves. For a paper published in Academic Emergency Medicine last year, researchers interviewed providers about these programs and found that patients were not the only benefactors.
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Educational Objectives:
- ED bridge programs may require extra work, but this study demonstrates they make life for ED providers better.
- Much attention is paid to hard data and quantitative research, but qualitative studies can be persuasive as well.
- We all should acknowledge that people need to find meaning in their work and incentivize programs that generate that meaning.
