Staff attitudes and the associations with treatment organisation, clinical practices and outcomes in opioid maintenance treatment

Table 2 Treatment characteristics and practices for OMT centres when divided into attitudinal groups

Characteristics for each group	"Harm reduction-oriented" centres	"Intermediate" centres	"Rehabilitation-oriented" centres
Total number of patients per group	1980	1513	1049
Patient/staff ratio	64	50	34
Methadone dose (mg)*	111 mg	111 mg	106 mg
Buprenorphine dose (mg)*	18 mg	17 mg	20 mg
Number of supervised dispensing per patient per week*	4.1	3.9	3.7
Number of patients urine drug screened at least once a week *†	62% (1419)	73% (1325)	74% (1115)
Interdisciplinary meeting previous 4 weeks*†	46% (1493)	49% (1326)	59% (1070)

*Median
† Number of patients in brackets
†† Not all items in each patient questionnaire were completed, thus the total number of respondents for each item varied from the total number of patients at each centre.

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