ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2013
Examining access to addiction treatment: scheduling processes and barriers.
Article in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00934141 (Randomized Control Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Randomized Control Trial (RCT) Evaluating Improvement Strategies in Addiction Treatment
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sustainment of Integrated Care in Addiction Treatment Settings: Primary Outcomes From a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Trial
- Implementing integrated services in routine behavioral health care: primary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2019Trial
- Receipt of addiction treatment as a consequence of a brief intervention for drug use in primary care: a randomized trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Trial
- Wait No Longer: Reducing Medication Wait-Times for Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders.Journal of dual diagnosisTrial
- Assessing public behavioral health services data: a mixed method analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Using NIATx strategies to implement integrated services in routine care: a study protocol.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Failure to get into substance abuse treatment.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Article
- Letter to the Editor on "Implementation of Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) Processes in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers".The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2016Article
- Examining attrition rates at one specialty addiction treatment provider in the United States: a case study using a retrospective chart review.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2014Article
- Wait times for publicly funded addiction and problem gambling treatment agencies in Ontario, Canada.BMC health services research · 2013Article
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Abstract
This paper reports on the phone scheduling systems that patients encounter when seeking addiction treatment. Researchers made a series of 28 monthly calls to 192 addiction treatment clinics to inquire about the clinics' first available appointment for an assessment. Each month, the date of each clinic's first available appointment and the date the appointment was made were recorded. During a 4-month baseline data collection period, the average waiting time from contact with the clinic to the first available appointment was 7.2 days. Clinics engaged in a 15-month quality improvement intervention in which average waiting time was reduced to 5.8 days. During the course of the study, researchers noted difficulty in contacting clinics and began recording the date of each additional attempt required to secure an appointment. On average, 0.47 callbacks were required to establish contact with clinics and schedule an appointment. Based on these findings, aspects of quality in phone scheduling processes are discussed. Most people with addiction seek help by calling a local addiction treatment clinic, and the reception they get matters. The results highlight variation in access to addiction treatment and suggest opportunities to improve phone scheduling processes.
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