RODS Tool Provider Education at an Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement initiative was to increase knowledge of the RODS screening tool and intent to adopt at an outpatient psychiatry clinic called GenHealth. Background: General substance abuse screening tools fail to target opioid use disorder criteria directly but instead examine many drugs of abuse. Many of the tools available are also time- consuming, fail to recognize populations that may not already be on analgesic therapy, and designed to detect abhorrent use in those on analgesic therapy. With the rise of opioid use disorder, it is imperative to have the ability to screen patients with an OUD-specific tool to assess the severity. The RODS tool provides a quick and efficient way to screen for OUD while addressing screening barriers. Method: This quality improvement project consisted of a pre-survey and post-survey with an evidence-based educational intervention that was deployed via an asynchronous Panopto format and addressed current screening tools, barriers to screening, and the RODS screening tool. Pre- survey and post-survey questionnaires were deployed via email using Google Forms to create, obtain, and quantitatively analyze data. The participants were given 14 days to complete the education and the two surveys. Results were shared with the implementation site via meeting and written? summary. Results: All five recruited participants completed all aspects of the intervention, including completing the pre-survey, watching the educational video, and completing the post-survey. A median four-point increase in agreement on a five-point scale was noted in the data. The data quantitively showed that providers at the clinic gained knowledge about the RODS screen and intend to adopt the RODS screen in practice. Conclusion: This project has established that an evidence-based quality improvement project can examine current practice, provide education to participants on new evidence-based practice, and persuade the adoption of such practice into the clinical setting.