Benefit-cost in the California treatment outcome project: Does substance abuse treatment "pay for itself"?

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 192-213

  Ettner, Susan L ^a   Huang, David ^b   Evans, Elizabeth ^b   Rose Ash, Danielle ^a   Hardy, Mary ^b   Jourabchi, Mickel ^c   Hser, Yih Ing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCLA ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cost offset; Costs; Substance abuse treatment

Indexed keywords

METHADONE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ADDICTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EPISODE OF CARE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644868936     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00466.x     Document Type: Article

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