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Article de Périodique
Building a European consensus on minimum quality standards for drug treatment, rehabilitation and harm reduction (2013)
Auteur(s) :
SCHAUB, M. P. ;
UCHTENHAGEN, A. ;
EQUS Expert Group
Année
2013
Page(s) :
314-324
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
28
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus géographique
EUROPE
Thésaurus mots-clés
TRAITEMENT
;
QUALITE
;
REDUCTION DES RISQUES ET DES DOMMAGES
;
PRISE EN CHARGE
Note générale :
EMCDDA scientific paper 2014 award winner
Résumé :
Background/Aims: The Study on the Development of an EU Framework for Minimum Quality Standards and Benchmarks in Drug Demand Reduction (EQUS) has set up an inventory of quality standards and initiated a consensus-building process, aiming at establishing a set of European minimum quality standards (MQS) for treatment/rehabilitation and harm reduction in the field of drug abuse and dependence.
Methods: Existing documents were collected by country-specific experts and integrated into a predefined framework of quality standards. Agreement, implementation status and expected implementation problems of the proposed standards were assessed by a survey of European stakeholders and the final lists of European MQS were established at a European conference.
Results: Overall, 349 documents were identified as relevant. Major gaps were identified for ethical and legal standards, and for documents that provide grades of evidence for specific standards. A high level of acceptance was found for the treatment/rehabilitation MQS, while a somewhat lower level was found for the harm reduction MQS. The final lists of MQS were based on at least 80% of acceptance by European experts and stakeholders.
Conclusion: A high consensus of European MQS for treatment/rehabilitation and harm reduction has been achieved. Further implementation and developmental steps are discussed.
Methods: Existing documents were collected by country-specific experts and integrated into a predefined framework of quality standards. Agreement, implementation status and expected implementation problems of the proposed standards were assessed by a survey of European stakeholders and the final lists of European MQS were established at a European conference.
Results: Overall, 349 documents were identified as relevant. Major gaps were identified for ethical and legal standards, and for documents that provide grades of evidence for specific standards. A high level of acceptance was found for the treatment/rehabilitation MQS, while a somewhat lower level was found for the harm reduction MQS. The final lists of MQS were based on at least 80% of acceptance by European experts and stakeholders.
Conclusion: A high consensus of European MQS for treatment/rehabilitation and harm reduction has been achieved. Further implementation and developmental steps are discussed.
Affiliation :
Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction, Zurich, Switzerland
Cote :
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