Dynamicare Review

One study evaluated clinical outcomes associated with DynamiCare in an inner-city outpatient clinic. Participants included 85 adults with opioid use disorder who used DynamiCare services for four months. They were retrospectively compared to matched controls who received services at the same time, from the same provider at a similar, nearby clinic in the same city. The results showed that participants in the DynamiCare group showed significantly higher rates of counseling appointment attendance in study months 2 to 4 (9.6%–18.0% increases) and an odds ratio of 4.84 for increased proportion of urine samples consistent with drug abstinence and adherence to prescribed medication, compared to controls at 120 days (P < 0.05) (DeFulio et al., 2021)

Another study evaluated the effects of the DynamiCare app in opioid use disorder (OUD) patients who had concurrent stimulant use disorder. Participants included 124 patients, who either received the DynamiCare intervention or were matched controls (i.e., DynamiCare participants were retrospectively matched, blind as to outcomes, to control patients at another clinic in the same city that did not offer the DynamiCare intervention). Drug use and clinic attendance outcomes were compared between the two groups in four consecutive 30-day blocks. The results showed that the DynamiCare intervention group showed consistently higher rates of drug abstinence and clinic attendance, which were significant at the latter two timepoints. (DeFulio, Furgeson, Brown, & Ryan, 2021)