Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of alcohol treatment: a rationale for extended case monitoring.
Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of alcohol treatment: a rationale for extended case monitoring.
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优化酒精治疗的成本效益:扩大病例监测的理由。
DOI:
10.1016/s0306-4603(98)00029-x
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Bellino,L
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文献类型:
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作者:
Stout,RL;Rubin,A;Zwick,W;Zywiak,W;Bellino,L
There has been much research on and debate about the appropriate length of acute treatment for alcohol problems. In the United States, the lengthy and costly treatment programs of only a few years ago have been supplanted by ever-shorter and less intensive protocols, with little evidence that this trend will end soon. In this paper, we argue that, because of the chronic, recurrent nature of alcohol problems, an optimal system for delivering treatment services to alcoholics needs to focus on long-term engagement with clients. There is evidence from studies on research reactivity and telephone follow-up protocols that a low-intensity long-term protocol for maintaining contact with clients over time spans measured in years may result in better long-term clinical outcomes and reduced long-term health care utilization and costs. We describe a flexible long-term low-intensity follow-up protocol for alcohol abusers we call “case monitoring.” This protocol is specifically designed to minimize long-term health-care use. We predict that such an intervention should be especially efficacious for women, persons with comorbid Axis I disorders, and persons lower in sociopathy. The design of a study to determine the clinical and health service effects of this intervention is also described.
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影响因子:
0.9
作者:
Carol Birchmore Timney Ba;K. Graham
通讯作者:
K. Graham
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
J. Rothman
通讯作者:
J. Rothman
影响因子:
5.9
作者:
R. Dubren
通讯作者:
R. Dubren
DOI:
10.1300/j251v06n01_01
发表时间:
1986
期刊:
Advances in alcohol & substance abuse
影响因子:
--
作者:
H. Holder;J. Hallan
通讯作者:
J. Hallan
DOI:
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
--
作者:
S. C. Stout;C. Nemeroff
通讯作者:
C. Nemeroff