Research Recommendation

Identification, intervention, and engagement

Develop and test new substance use disorder identification, brief intervention (both as a preventive service and treatment), and engagement approaches for specific populations and settings, including electronic health records and substance use disorder pharmacotherapy

Conduct implementation studies of existing and new identification, brief intervention, and engagement approaches

Develop outcomes measures of overall health beyond substance use and related consequences

Chronic care management

Conduct implementation studies of new delivery models that include chronic care management

Determine provider, organization, and system readiness to implement chronic care management

Develop and test new ways to facilitate communication between addiction and medical care providers

Develop and test care management strategies that use health information technologies, including electronic health records, patient portals, and mobile health applications

Including patient and family perspectives

Identify attitudes of specific subgroups of patients to treatment approaches, goals, and outcomes

Develop and test patient engagement strategies, including the role of social support systems

Develop and test strategies to engage medical providers with patients with substance use disorders and in addiction care

Develop and test patient decision aids

Financing and payment

Develop and test new payment systems, including impacts on patients, clinicians, provider organizations and payers

Develop risk adjustment models for coordinated care payment systems

Develop and validate performance measures for coordinated care payment systems