Using pay for performance to improve treatment implementation for adolescent substance use disorders: results from a cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether pay for performance (P4P) is an effective method to improve adolescent substance use disorder treatment implementation and efficacy.

Design

Cluster randomized trial.

Setting

Community-based treatment organizations.

Participants

Twenty-nine community-based treatment organizations, 105 therapists, and 986 adolescent patients (953 with complete data).

Intervention

Community-based treatment organizations were assigned to 1 of the following conditions: the implementation-as-usual (IAU) control condition or the P4P experimental condition. In addition to delivering the same evidence-based treatment (ie, using the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach [A-CRA]), each organization received standardized levels of funding, training, a

SUBMITTER: Garner BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6746231 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature