Quality of care measures for the management of unhealthy alcohol use.
There is a paucity of quality measures to assess the care for the range of unhealthy alcohol use, ranging from risky drinking to alcohol use disorders. Using a two-phase expert panel review process, we sought to develop an expanded set of quality of care measures for unhealthy alcohol use, focusing on outpatient care delivered in both primary care and specialty care settings. This process generated 25 candidate measures. Eight measures address screening and assessment, 11 address aspects of treatment, and six address follow-up. These quality measures represent high priority targets for future development, including creating detailed technical specifications and pilot testing them to evaluate their utility in terms of feasibility, reliability, and validity.
RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA. Electronic address: hepner@rand.org.
Kimberly A
KA
Hepner
RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA. Electronic address: kwatkins@rand.org.
Katherine E
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Watkins
RAND Corporation, 4570 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: cfarmer@rand.org.
Carrie M
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Farmer
RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA; VA Greater Los Angeles at Sepulveda, 16111 Plummer St. (152), North Hills, CA 91343, USA; Department of Medicine and School of Public Health, UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: Lisa.Rubenstein@va.gov.
Lisa
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Rubenstein
RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA. Electronic address: ericp@rand.org.
Eric R
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Pedersen
RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 09, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: pincush@nyspi.columbia.edu.
Harold Alan
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Pincus
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012309:Risk-Taking; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Expert panel; Quality measures; Unhealthy alcohol use