Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment cluster
Data Set Specification Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 407265 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 |
DSS type: | Data Element Cluster |
Scope: | These data items are used in conjunction to determine:
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Guide for use: | Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment (OPT) is a form of treatment for heroin or opiate dependence using prescribed opioid agonists, which have some properties similar or identical to those of heroin and morphine, including the effect on the brain, which alleviate withdrawal symptoms and block the craving for illicit opiates. The most common form of opioid pharmacotherapy treatment is methadone maintenance treatment. However, buprenorphine is also quite common in some countries (Kastelic et al. 2008). The OPT program cluster comprises three data elements which provide information on a person's current and past OPT programs:
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Collection methods: | Data is collected at the reception assessment on the National Prisoner Health Census Prison Entrants form. Respondents may respond 'yes' to both 'on it now' and 'in the past'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reference documents: | Kastelic A, Pont J & Stover H 2008. Opioid substitution treatment in custodial settings: a practical guide. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment cluster Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison entrants DSS Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 |
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