title: Development of a "treatment program" descriptor: the addiction treatment inventory.
abstract: This paper reviews the current literature on the definition and classification of drug and alcohol user treatment "programs," and provides a rationale for our approach to measuring the treatment programs in the Drug Evaluation Network System (DENS). The DENS gathers extensive background and recent status data on patients' drug, alcohol, psychiatric, medical, employment, legal, and family problems as they enter a sample of treatment programs throughout the country. The DENS recognized the need for descriptive information on important structural, organizational, and service delivery aspects of the programs in which those patients were treated. To this end, we present our efforts thus far in characterizing and monitoring "service delivery units" or "programs" that are sampled in the DENS system. Specifically, we present development of the Addiction Treatment Inventory (ATI), a standardized measurement instrument to characterize these service delivery units and their services.
authors.affiliation: The Treatment Research Institute and the Center for Studies of Addiction, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19103, USA. dcarise@tresearch.com
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carise
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: McLellan
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Gifford
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014481:United States