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Relative Effectiveness of Medications for Opioid-related Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

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About the Course

This course looks at the effectiveness of pharmacotherapeutic interventions with patients who are diagnosed with Opioid Use Disorder. The meta-analysis includes more than 70 studies and discusses findings of this study and areas for future research.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, Relative Effectiveness of Medications for Opioid-related Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials created by Jihoon Lim, PhD. (Epidemiology) et al. in 2022.

Publication Details

Publication Date: PLoS ONE 17(3): e0266142 Apr 2022

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Jihoon Lim, PhD. (Epidemiology)

Jihoon Lim is affiliated with 1 Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC. He works with health economics outcomes research and has been doing this work for more than four years. He has had multiple works published in peer reviewed journals.

Imen Farhat

Imen Farhat is a researcher with Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, She is an epidemiologists who has had multiple articles published in peer reviewed journals.

Target Audience

Counselors, marriage and family therapists,nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physicians, psychologists and social workers.This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Discuss the definition of opioid use disorder
  2. 2 Identify the signs and symptoms that can be associated with opioid use disorder
  3. 3 Describe the finding of a study identified through a systematic literature research

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