Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment cluster
Data Set Specification Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 626820 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 |
DSS type: | Data Element Cluster |
Scope: | The Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment cluster defines:
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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 combines three data elements to provide information on a person's current and past OPT programs: The data elements are: The OPT cluster defines the following information:
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Collection methods: | Data is collected at the reception assessment on the National Prisoner Health Data Collection 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment cluster Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 Has been superseded by Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment cluster Health!, Recorded 31/05/2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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