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January 2003
 Using Performance
Measurement to Improve the
Quality of Alcohol Treatment
Businesses,
government and health care providers have acknowledged through the
adoption of performance measures for addiction treatment that the
quality of alcohol treatment matters and that performance
measurement can improve quality. Beginning in 2004, the nations
leading health accreditation group will ask health care providers
to measure and report their success in engaging people with
alcohol and other drug problems in treatment. Alcohol problems
kill 100,000 Americans every year and cost society almost $185
billion annually. Yet until recently, little attention has been
paid to the quality of alcohol treatment even though better
treatment has the potential to reduce these enormous human and
social costs. In fact, according to a 2003 study published in the
New England Journal of Medicine, the quality of alcohol treatment
ranked dead last among the study's assessment of treatment for
the nations 25 leading causes of death, illness,
hospitalization and doctors visits.
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