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High Performing Addiction Treatment Centers: A Frontier Analysis in Maryland

Performance Study of Addiction Treatment. Treatment outcomes of addiction clinic is a major social and public policy issue161 addiction treatment clinics and 30,660 patients categorized into 3 severity levels in Maryland (year 2005)Measures of clinic effectiveness in treating addiction. quanti

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High Performing Addiction Treatment Centers: A Frontier Analysis in Maryland

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    1. High Performing Addiction Treatment Centers: A Frontier Analysis in Maryland Rafael A. Corredoira Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland – CP Jon Chilingerian Brandeis University October 2008

    2. Performance Study of Addiction Treatment Treatment outcomes of addiction clinic is a major social and public policy issue 161 addiction treatment clinics and 30,660 patients categorized into 3 severity levels in Maryland (year 2005) Measures of clinic effectiveness in treating addiction. quantity of clients completing the program; and, quantity of clients not using drugs at discharge 2

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    4. How DEA Works 4

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    6. Findings 24 of 161addiction treatment centers were on the best practice frontier scoring 100% effective The mean performance score for the 161 was 70% This means that there is a potential improvement of @ 30% 26 centers were less than 50 percent effective The least effective center was only 24% as effective as the best and could have used improved their performance by 76% 6

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    14. Hypotheses* H1: Volume of Patients (+) H2: % High Severity (-) H3: Clinic specializes on Severity Group (+) H4: Clinic specializes on Level I treatment (+) H5: Receive State Funding (+) H6: County’s income per capita (+) H7: Number of clinics per square mile (-) 14

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    16. What happens if we focus on the average or the limit?

    17. How consistency facilitates performance analysis

    18. Mechanisms are reinforcing

    19. How information is leveraged Monthly peer reports Each bank knows exactly its rank relative to other banks The worst bank must contact one of the best banks and learn from it how to improve

    20. What happens in the limit?

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