title: The primitive state of quality measures in addiction treatment and their application.
abstract: Developing quality measures in addiction treatment and implementing them is easy. Developing ones that are valid, interpretable, that motivate real improvements in quality and do not have adverse unintended consequences is very difficult. One serious, but mostly unacknowledged, threat to the validity of quality measures is poor estimates of the true prevalence of substance use disorder in a target population, leading to errors in estimates of treatment coverage.
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. alexander.harris2@va.gov.
authors.forename: Alex H S
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D059019:Clinical Coding; D006801:Humans; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*