Five-year trajectories of health care utilization and cost in a drug and alcohol treatment sample

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-240

  Parthasarathy, Sujaya ^a   Weisner, Constance M ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol and drug; Costs; Hierarchical linear models; Longitudinal data; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26444482917     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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