- Overview
   - What CD Measures
   
- Development Foundation
   - Development Objectives
   - Benefits
   - Differentiators
   - System Components


Differentiators


• Incorporates risk adjustment variables that have been shown to mediate outcomes and provide profiles of risk and obstacles to recovery.

• Matches patients to specific services based on research that established the “matching” procedures and documented their impact upon outcomes.

• Concurrently monitors treatment

• National Institute of Drug and Alcohol (NIDA) reviewed and funded

• Allows for severity adjusted comparisons to other programs

• Facilitates patient involvement in treatment

• Real time, clinically actionable patient reports

• Data quality indicators that alert counselors to random or inauthentic patient responding as well as ensure that aggregate analyses of program performance are based upon reliable data.

• Provides software with advanced features that provide for integration of assessment as part of the clinical process, with minimal staff or respondent burden.

• Provides for clinician input

• Content is continually enhanced based on new research and data

 
 
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