Table 2:

Number of responses and votes received for whether or not to initiate medication assisted therapy (MAT, Question 1) and evaluating individual MAT strategy preferences (Question 2)^*

Topic	Total number of responses generated N=220 (% of total responses)	Number of highly-ranked responses N=90 (% of highly-ranked responses)	Total number of votes cast N=716 (% of total number of votes)	No. of votes cast for highly-ranked items N=400 (% of votes cast for highly-ranked items)
Q1, What are considerations for starting any medication treatment at all?	116 (53%)	24 (27%)	116 (16%)	83 (21%)
What are the positive and negative features of methadone?	45 (20%)	23 (26%)	141 (20%)	109 (27%)
What are the positive and negative features of buprenorphine-naloxone sublingual?	23 (10%)	17 (9%)	315 (44%)	74 (19%)
What are the positive and negative features of injected naltrexone?	28 (13%)	21 (23%)	110 (15%)	102 (26%)
What are the positive and negative features of implantable buprenorphine?	7 (3%)	5 (6%)	33 (5%)	32 (8%)

^*Each individual was able to cast 3 votes for every question (distributed among 1–3 responses). High-ranking responses were 5 responses receiving most votes per question, with at least 2 votes (if tied, more than 5 were included),