Inside the black box: Measuring addiction treatment services and their relation to outcomes

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 269-276

  Crèvecoeur MacPhail, Désiree ^a   Ransom, Loretta ^a   Myers, Ana Ceci ^a   Armon, Jeffrey J ^a   Diep, Nancy ^a   Gonzales, Rachel ^a   Rawson, Richard A ^a   Viemes, John ^b   Sugita, Wayne ^b   Barger, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Los Angeles County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction treatment; Evaluation; Performance; Performance and outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; HUMAN; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COUNSELING; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 79952114709     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2010.10400550     Document Type: Article

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