Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment program cluster
Data Set Specification Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Set Specification |
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METEOR identifier: | 634954 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 |
DSS type: | Data Element Cluster |
Scope: | The Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment (OPT) program cluster defines:
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | 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). Respondents are asked:
Responses may include:
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Collection methods: | Data is collected on the National Prisoner Health Data Collection Prison Discharge form. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment program cluster Health!, Recorded 30/05/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison dischargee NBEDS Health!, Standard 28/04/2016 |
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification |