Rate Your Addiction Treatment Facility: Exploring the Quality Chasm Online

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The opioid crisis has shed light on components of the addiction treatment system in the USA that could benefit from improved quality. Despite initiatives to define, measure, and enhance addiction treatment services and outcomes that predate the 2001 Institute of Medicine’s “Quality Chasm” report¹ on the importance of quality in healthcare systems, there remains stark variation in treatment services and outcomes across programs. Importantly, because addiction treatment services have traditionally been provided through a system that runs in parallel to “mainstream” medicine and are often overseen by non-medical staff, many patients, family members, and clinicians are unable to determine the quality of care provided in specialized drug treatment facilities (SDTFs). …