Quality Drug Abuse Care: Assessment, Assurance, and Cost and Economic Issues.Analytic Reports

摘要

This project evaluates state-of-the-art quality assurance instruments and systemsfrom seven public, private, and managed-care drug treatment programs on (1) costs; (2) utility; (3) feasibility; (4) standards; (5) impact; and (6) acceptability from staff. Research staff will interview administrative, clinical, and quality assurance staff and will review quality assessment and monitoring instruments. The report contains articles on the following subjects in the drug abuse treatment field: (1) assessing quality of care; (2) evaluating quality improvement systems; (3) internal quality assurance; (4) external quality assurance; (5) estimating operating costs of quality assurance programs; and (6) quality assurance efforts of behavioral managed care organizations and substance abuse treatment providers.