Short-term outcomes in patients attending a primary care-based addiction shared care program.

Objective: To evaluate patient outcomes in an addiction shared care program that is managed by family physicians working in a primary care setting.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: The addiction shared care program at St Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto, Ont, which is staffed by a nurse clinician, an addiction therapist, a clinical fellow, and 6 family physicians in an academic family medicine unit.