Changes in Alcohol-Related Inpatient Care
An International Trend Comparison
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2001Published in: Journal of Addictive Diseases, v. 20, no. 2, 2001, p. 97-104
This paper studies two utilization measures of alcoholism treatment, discharge rate and average length of stay, in the United States, Australia, Sweden and Canada. The results suggest that the decline in length of stay and discharges in the past 15 years was an international phenomenon and not unique to the U.S. However, data for length of stay also suggest that the biggest decline in the United States coincided with the fastest growth of managed behavioral health care.
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- Copyright: Haworth Press, Inc
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2001
- Pages: 8
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: EP-200100-09
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