Measurement of Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Over Time
| Autor: | Farrokh Alemi, Heibatollah Baghi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Drug
medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Health (social science) Substance-Related Disorders Leadership and Management business.industry Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Outcome Assessment Health Care Emergency medicine medicine Humans Substance abuse treatment business Care Planning media_common |
| Zdroj: | Quality Management in Health Care. 19:129-136 |
| ISSN: | 1063-8628 |
| Popis: | There are many different ways of calculating the impact of treatment on drug use; percentage of positive drug tests, probability of drug use, percentage of patients abstaining from any use, total number of days of use, daily probability of use and average days till next use, are some examples reported in the literature. We prefer average days till next use because (1) it allows intermittent drug use and relapse; (2) it fits the client's count of drug-free days, and (3) it simultaneously accounts for both tests results and time between tests. We show by way of an example, how conclusions arrived at using average days till next use are likely to be different from other measures in analysis of recent data from impact of online treatment on drug use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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