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Can encouraging substance abuse patients to participate in self-help groups reduce demand for health care? A quasi-experimental studyK Humphreys
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94025, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 25:711-6. 2001....
A policy-oriented review of strategies for improving the outcomes of services for substance use disorder patientsKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Addiction 106:2058-66. 2011....- Federal policy on criminal offenders who have substance use disorders: how can we maximize public health and public safety?Keith Humphreys
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Washington, DC, USA
Subst Abus 33:5-8. 2012..Scientists and clinicians in the addiction field have a critical role to play in this much-needed effort to break the cycle of addiction, crime and incarceration... 
Ultra-brief intervention for problem drinkers: research protocolJohn A Cunningham
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S1, Canada
BMC Public Health 8:298. 2008..The major objective of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to establish the effectiveness of an ultra-brief, personalized feedback intervention for problem drinkers...- Responding to the psychological impact of war on the Iraqi people and U.S. veterans: mixing icing, praying for cakeKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, and Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 5717, USA
Am Psychol 64:712-23. 2009..Building on these common themes and my own experiences, I describe how two nations are trying to address the colossal psychological damage wrought by the war in Iraq... - Prevalence and predictors of research participant eligibility criteria in alcohol treatment outcome studies, 1970-98Keith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, CA 94025, USA
Addiction 100:1249-57. 2005..To describe the eligibility criteria (i.e. study participant inclusion and exclusion rules) employed in alcohol treatment outcome research and to identify predictors of their use... - Does following research-derived practice guidelines improve opiate-dependent patients' outcomes under everyday practice conditions? Results of the Multisite Opiate Substitution Treatment studyKeith Humphreys
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 34:173-9. 2008..0% in nonconcordant clinics. Following research-derived practice guidelines seems to increase opiate substitution treatment effectiveness for opiate-dependent patients in the real world... - Closing remarks: Swimming to the horizon--reflections on a special seriesKeith Humphreys
Program Evaluation and Resource Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park Division (152, 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Addiction 101:1238-40. 2006 - Encouraging posttreatment self-help group involvement to reduce demand for continuing care services: two-year clinical and utilization outcomesKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, California
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:64-8. 2007.... - Influence of subject eligibility criteria on compliance with National Institutes of Health guidelines for inclusion of women, minorities, and children in treatment researchKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:988-95. 2007.... - If substance use disorder treatment more than offsets its costs, why don't more medical centers want to provide it? A budget impact analysis in the Veterans Health AdministrationKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, CA, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 41:243-51. 2011..Health care system managers may not be influenced by research suggesting that the costs of SUD treatment are more than fully offset because they bear the cost of providing treatment while the savings largely accrue to other systems... - Subject eligibility criteria can substantially influence the results of alcohol-treatment outcome researchKeith Humphreys
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road, 152, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:757-64. 2008..g., comorbid illegal drug abuse, homelessness). The current study evaluated whether such eligibility criteria can change the outcome results a study obtains... - Performance monitoring of substance use disorder interventions in the Veterans Health AdministrationKeith Humphreys
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs, Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, California 94025, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 35:123-7. 2009..Measuring and improving the quality of treatment for patients with substance use disorders are enduring challenges... - Self-help organizations for alcohol and drug problems: toward evidence-based practice and policyKeith Humphreys
SAMHSA Veterans Health Administration Workgroup on Substance Abuse Self Help Organizations, c o Program Evaluation and Resource Center, Veterans Affairs Health Care System 152 MPD, 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 26:151-8; discussion 159-65. 2004..Implementing such policies could strengthen alcohol and drug self-help organizations, and thereby enhance the national response to the serious public health problem of substance abuse... - Alcohol & drug abuse: A research-based analysis of the Moderation Management controversyKeith Humphreys
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System (152-MPD, 795 Willow Road (152, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:621-2. 2003 - Datapoints: moving from inpatient to residential substance abuse treatment in the VAKeith Humphreys
VA Program Evaluation and Resource Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:927. 2002 - Can targeting nondependent problem drinkers and providing internet-based services expand access to assistance for alcohol problems? A study of the moderation management self-help/mutual aid organizationK Humphreys
Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
J Stud Alcohol 62:528-32. 2001..This study evaluated whether MM drew into assistance an untapped segment of the population with nondependent alcohol problems. It also examined how access to the organization was influenced by the provision of Internet-based resources... - Assessing readmission to substance abuse treatment as an indicator of outcome and program performanceK Humphreys
Psychiatr Serv 51:1568-9. 2000.... - Datapoints: do participants in alcoholism treatment outcome studies resemble patients seen in everyday practice?Keith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs ans Stanford university Medical Centers, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1576. 2003 - A few apologies, but no regretsKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Addiction 99:155-6. 2004 - Different components of opioid-substitution treatment predict outcomes of patients with and without a parent with substance-use problemsJodie A Trafton
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University Medical School, 795 Willow Road 152 MPD, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:165-72. 2007..The aim of this study was to determine how the treatment needs and outcomes of polysubstance-using patients entering opioid-substitution treatment (OST) may be affected if the patient had a parent with substance-use problems... - Predictors of retention in methadone programs: a signal detection analysisSteven W Villafranca
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 83:218-24. 2006..Provider-related variables play a vital role in predicting retention in OAT programs, as higher methadone dose (> or =59 mg/day) and greater treatment satisfaction were among the strongest predictors of retention at 1-year follow-up... - Opioid substitution treatment reduces substance use equivalently in patients with and without posttraumatic stress disorderJodie A Trafton
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, California, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:228-35. 2006..The purpose of this study was to determine whether opioid-dependent patients with diagnosed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have poorer long-term outcomes in opioid substitution treatment than do patients without PTSD... - Measuring the quality of substance use disorder treatment: evaluating the validity of the Department of Veterans Affairs continuity of care performance measureAlex H S Harris
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 36:294-305. 2009..Translating research into process-of-care quality measures requires postconstruction validation... - How are substance use disorders addressed in VA psychiatric and primary care settings? Results of a national surveyStephen W Tracy
Program Evaluation and Resource Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, 795 Willow Road MPD 152, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:266-9. 2007..This study examined interventions for substance use disorders within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) psychiatric and primary care settings... - Does meeting the HEDIS substance abuse treatment engagement criterion predict patient outcomes?Alex H S Harris
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 37:25-39. 2010.... - Developing and validating process measures of health care quality: an application to alcohol use disorder treatmentAlex H S Harris
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Med Care 47:1244-50. 2009..This article presents an alternative strategy for developing and validating process quality measures. The development of an alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment quality measure is used as an example... - How Internet technology can improve the quality of care for substance use disordersMichael A Cucciare
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Curr Drug Abuse Rev 2:256-62. 2009..Internet applications provide an unparalleled opportunity to engage patients in the treatment process, incorporate real-time data into treatment planning, prevent relapse, and promote evidence-based treatment approaches... - Consistent adherence to guidelines improves opioid dependent patients' first year outcomesJodie A Trafton
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, 795 Willow Road 152 MPD, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 34:260-71. 2007..These results suggest that efforts to increase guideline adherence in OST will improve patient outcomes... - Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-step alcoholism treatment programsKeith Humphreys
Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Recent Dev Alcohol 16:149-64. 2003.... - Veterans Affairs facility performance on Washington Circle indicators and casemix-adjusted effectivenessAlex H S Harris
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 33:333-9. 2007..Ideally, the WC indicators would be supplemented with other measures of treatment quality... - The cost of concordance with opiate substitution treatment guidelinesPaul G Barnett
VA Health Economics Resource Center HERC, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 39:141-9. 2010..Annual mortality was 3.0% and did not differ by type of care. Preference-based quality of life significantly improved only at highly concordant sites... - Treatment needs associated with pain in substance use disorder patients: implications for concurrent treatmentJodie A Trafton
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 73:23-31. 2004..Pain complicates the treatment of SUD and should be addressed as an important co-morbidity during treatment... - Organizational contexts of primary care approaches for managing problem drinkingKathleen Schutte
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park Division MPD 152 795, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 36:435-45. 2009..However, PC-based practices were found to take more responsibility for managing patients' chronic conditions and had more staff for decision support activities... - Improving Medicare coverage of psychological services for older AmericansBradley E Karlin
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Am Psychol 62:637-49. 2007..As Medicare policy entrepreneurs, psychologists can improve the well-being of millions of Americans who rely on the national health insurance program and, in so doing, can help shape the future practice of psychology... - HEDIS initiation and engagement quality measures of substance use disorder care: impact of setting and health care specialtyAlex H S Harris
VA Center for Health Care Evaluation, 795 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Popul Health Manag 12:191-6. 2009..The usual combining of inpatient and outpatient performance on these measures into overall facility scores clouds measurement and interpretation... - Response to methadone maintenance treatment of opiate dependent patients with and without significant painMark A Ilgen
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, 795 Willow Road MPD 152, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 82:187-93. 2006..The present study investigated the 1-year treatment outcomes of MMT patients with opiate dependence and pain... - A pilot cohort study of the determinants of longitudinal opioid use after surgeryIan Carroll
Department of Anesthesia, Division of Pain Management, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94035, USA
Anesth Analg 115:694-702. 2012..Determinants of the duration of opioid use after surgery have not been reported. We hypothesized that both preoperative psychological distress and substance abuse would predict more prolonged opioid use after surgery... - Why health care process performance measures can have different relationships to outcomes for patients and hospitals: understanding the ecological fallacyJohn W Finney
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1635-42. 2011.... - Assessing spirituality/religiosity in the treatment environment: the Treatment Spirituality/Religiosity ScaleJason Lillis
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University Medical School, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 35:427-33. 2008..93), and good discriminant validity. The TSRS appears to be a brief, easily administered, and potentially useful measure of the emphasis on S/R in residential SUD treatment programs... - Determining effective methadone doses for individual opioid-dependent patientsJodie A Trafton
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
PLoS Med 3:e80. 2006..Studies of individual responses to methadone treatment may be more easily translated into clinical practice... - Social networks as mediators of the effect of Alcoholics AnonymousLee Ann Kaskutas
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA, 94709, USA
Addiction 97:891-900. 2002..This study tested the hypothesis that the relationship between Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) involvement and reduced substance use is partially explained (or 'mediated') by changes in social networks... - The psychological science of addictionElizabeth Gifford
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Addiction 102:352-61. 2007..To discuss the contributions and future course of the psychological science of addiction... - Alcoholics anonymous involvement and positive alcohol-related outcomes: cause, consequence, or just a correlate? A prospective 2-year study of 2,319 alcohol-dependent menJohn McKellar
Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:302-8. 2003..Additional models found that these effects were not attributable to motivation or psychopathology. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that AA participation has a positive effect on alcohol-related outcomes... - Meta-analysis of naltrexone and acamprosate for treating alcohol use disorders: when are these medications most helpful?NATALYA C MAISEL
Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System 152MPD, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Addiction 108:275-93. 2013.... - Depression increases diabetes symptoms by complicating patients' self-care adherenceJohn D McKellar
Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, California, USA
Diabetes Educ 30:485-92. 2004..More aggressive management of depression among patients with diabetes may improve their physical health as well as their mental health... - Does writing affect asthma? A randomized trialAlex H S Harris
Department of Veteran Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
Psychosom Med 67:130-6. 2005..Our main objective was to test and extend previous research finding that written emotional expression improves pulmonary function in patients with asthma compared with writing on neutral topics... - Rebuilding Iraq's mental health systemKeith Humphreys
Stanford University, USA
Behav Healthc 26:34-5. 2006 - Participation in alcoholics anonymous: intended and unintended change mechanismsPatricia L Owen
Butler Center for Research at Hazelden, Box 11, Center City, MN, 55103, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:524-32. 2003..Owen and Valerie Slaymaker; (4) Social networks and AA involvement as mediators of change, by Lee Ann Kaskutas and Keith Humphreys; and (5) What do we know about Alcoholics Anonymous? by William R. Miller, discussant. - Electronic support groups for breast carcinoma: a clinical trial of effectivenessMorton A Lieberman
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Cancer 97:920-5. 2003..However, to the authors' knowledge, no studies published to date have examined the impact of a breast carcinoma ESG in a clinical trial... - Effect of ATM, CHEK2 and ERBB2 TAGSNPs and haplotypes on endometrial cancer riskKristjana Einarsdóttir
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Hum Mol Genet 16:154-64. 2007..In conclusion, it is possible that common variants in the ATM and CHEK2 genes, in interaction with oestrogen-related exposures, are involved in endometrial cancer aetiology... - Internet and paper self-help materials for problem drinking: is there an additive effect?John A Cunningham
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S1
Addict Behav 30:1517-23. 2005..Further research on this topic should be a priority because of the potential for Internet-based interventions to reach problem drinkers underserved by traditional treatment... - Testing association in the presence of linkage--a powerful score for binary traitsGudrun Jonasdottir
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, S 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Genet Epidemiol 31:528-40. 2007..We apply the method to data from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism. We compare our findings to previously published results... - Validity and reliability of the German version of the short understanding of substance abuse scaleFranz Moggi
University Hospital of Clinical Psychiatry, Berne, Switzerland
Eur Addict Res 11:172-9. 2005..This analysis identified two factors: the Psychosocial model factor and a slightly different Disease model factor. The VSS Disease and Psychosocial subscales showed convergent and discriminant validity, as well as sufficient reliability... - Toward more responsive and effective intervention systems for alcohol-related problemsKeith Humphreys
Addiction 97:126-32. 2002 - The cost of institutional review board procedures in multicenter observational researchKeith Humphreys
Ann Intern Med 139:77. 2003 - Testing association in the presence of linkage using the GRE and multiple markersGudrun Jonasdottir
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Genet Epidemiol 32:425-33. 2008..We demonstrate the usefulness of the extended GRE, by reanalyzing the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism data, allowing for missing parental information... - Response: the marriage of drug abuse treatment and 12-step strategiesRobert R Forman
Sci Pract Perspect 2:52-4. 2003 - The trials of Alcoholics AnonymousKeith Humphreys
Addiction 101:617-8. 2006 - Formative evaluation and three-month follow-up of an online personalized assessment feedback intervention for problem drinkersJohn A Cunningham
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
J Med Internet Res 8:e5. 2006..In recent years, online services for problem drinkers have been developed. This paper describes ongoing efforts to improve one of these services, the Alcohol Help Center... - Underrepresentation of African Americans in online cancer support groupsJoshua Fogel
Department of Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:705-12. 2008.... - From addiction treatment research reviews to better widgetsKeith Humphreys
Addiction 100:751-2. 2005