Using Performance Measurement to Improve the Quality of Alcohol Treatment

January 2003 Using Performance Measurement to Improve the Quality of Alcohol Treatment Businesses, government and health care providers have acknowledged through the adoption of performance measures for addiction treatment that the quality of alcohol treatment matters and that performance measurement can improve quality. Beginning in 2004, the nations leading health accreditation group will ask health care providers to measure and report their success in engaging people with alcohol and other drug problems in treatment. Alcohol problems kill 100,000 Americans every year and cost society almost $185 billion annually. Yet until recently, little attention has been paid to the quality . . .