This is an academic article that gives an overview of opioid use disorder treatment models in the emergency department (ED). The ASSERT Model employs peer workers to directly link patients to services, the Bridge Model uses providers to initiate buprenorphine in the ED and provide linkage to continuity of treatment, and the ED-Bridge Model uses providers to initiate buprenorphine in the ED and follow up the same patients in an addiction treatment clinic.
Martin, A., Butler, K., Chavez, T., Herring, A., Wakeman, S., Hayes, B.D., Raja, A. (2020). Beyond Buprenorphine: Models of Follow-up Care for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergeny Department. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 21(6), 257-263.