Seeing the trees despite the forest: Applying recursive partitioning to the evaluation of drug treatment retention

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-64

  Hellemann, Gerhard ^a   Conner, Bradley T ^a   Anglin, M Douglas ^a   Longshore, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug treatment retention; Narcotic replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADULT; AGED; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION TREES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NARCOTICS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DROPOUTS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349162491     PISSN: 07405472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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