Chapter 4.Patient Placement Criteria
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How can a clinician choose the optimal treatment for a patient who is dependent on alcohol or drugs? Is the answer: “Most programs provide 28 days of residential rehabilitation, followed by weekly aftercare meetings modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, so why not suggest the closest one and hope the patient shows up?” Or is it: “Most approaches fare about as well as the others, so see what the patient will accept and hope it works”? In the modern era of treating addictive diseases, science has provided a better foundation for treatment matching. A broad consensus of experts has reviewed this background and provided a model for choosing optimal treatments for each patient at each given moment in the course of his or her illness. This model is known as patient placement criteria.
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