Abstract
Background The Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid redesign in New York City offer opportunities to explore alternative methods for measuring the effectiveness of behavioral health interventions. Quality of life (QOL) measures have been underutilized in substance use disorders treatment (SUDT). The objective of this study was to determine how a validated QOL instrument could be used in SUDT as a measure of health-related patient outcomes.
Highlights
The Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid redesign in New York City offer opportunities to explore alternative methods for measuring the effectiveness of behavioral health interventions
Domain-specific Quality of life (QOL) scores were calculated, transformed, and compared with healthy and chronically ill populations from the literature [2]; scoring was on a scale of 0 to 100 for each domain
We examined change in QOL scores among opioid treatment programs (OTP) participants stratified by major health conditions
Summary
The objective of this study was to determine how a validated QOL instrument could be used in SUDT as a measure of health-related patient outcomes
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