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Table 3 What could be done to improve the management of patients on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT)?

From: Difficulties associated with outpatient management of drug abusers by general practitioners. A cross-sectional survey of general practitioners with and without methadone patients in Switzerland

Question:

PT (n = 352)

PWT (n = 231)

X2

P

Better reimbursement for care

58.8%

Question not asked

  

Better post-graduate training

50%

31.2%

56.9

< 0.001

Group discussion of clinical cases

50%

22.9%

42.8

< 0.001

Better knowledge of psychiatric pathologies

46.6%

21.2%

38.7

< 0.001

More political commitment to drug-addicted patients

(more centers, more specialized professionals)

44.6%

64.1%

21.2

< 0.001

More accessible specialized professionals

42%

37.2%

1.3

0.262

Better training at medical school

41.2%

19%

6.0

0.014

Better screening for drug addiction

by private practitioners

18.2%

16.5%

0.3

0.656

Stronger political repression of illegal drugs

9.7%

19.5%

11.5

0.001

  1. PT = General practitioners with patients on methadone substitution treatment
  2. PWT = General practitioners without patients on methadone substitution treatment