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Admissions to Detoxification after Treatment: Does Engagement Make a Difference?
Andrea Acevedo, PhD; Deborah Garnick, ScD; Grant Ritter, PhD; Lena Lundgren, PhD; & Constance Horgan, ScD
Volume 37, 2016 – Issue 2
“This study provides further evidence of the importance of treatment providers ensuring that all clients entering outpatient treatment receive prompt services to meet the treatment engagement criteria. Treatment providers could implement process improvement techniques to increase their treatment engagement rates, which may improve client treatment outcomes, including a reduction in the likelihood of a subsequent detoxification admission. Although other studies have also shown that engagement is associated with better treatment outcomes (e.g., reduction in arrest, better employment outcomes), our results suggest that treatment engagement also may provide benefits to the treatment system itself through potential savings if detoxifications admissions can be prevented.”
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