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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Editorial - Health-care reform provides an opportunity for evidence-based alcohol treatment in the USA: the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline as a model
The USA is entering an era of major change in the financing and delivery of health-care services, including a greater emphasis on evidence-based treatment.
Mainstream US alcohol treatment is an amalgam of
experience- and evidence-based approaches; the National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
alcohol guideline could provide a model for reform in
the USA.
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