Clinically Significant Change to Establish Benchmarks in Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 890-901

  Billingham, Daniel D ^a   Kelly, Peter J ^a   Deane, Frank P ^a   Crowe, Trevor P ^a   Buckingham, Mark S ^b   Craig, Fiona L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Kedesh Rehabilitation Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Clinically significant change; Co morbidity; Kedesh rehabilitation services; Residential rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871252545     PISSN: 15571874     EISSN: 15571882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-012-9384-3     Document Type: Article

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