Patterns of Health Services Use Associated With Veterans Affairs Outpatient Substance-Use Treatment

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Volume 68, 2007 > Issue 4: July 2007 pp 510-518





This study examined service use and costs associated with receiving intensive outpatient (IOP) substance-use treatment.

Results indicated that more intense IOP treatment is associated with increases in subsequent psychiatric, substance-use, medical, and total outpatient care and decreases in expensive inpatient care

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