Meta-Analysis of Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies

We will provide the database infrastructure and software tools necessary to enable quantitative intpublished drug abuse treatment outcome studies. These facilities will allow health services researcmeta-analytic techniques to gain a clearer insight into drug abuse treatment effectiveness than whatthe traditional narrative research overview. The Phase I project will consist of several activitiesbaseline meta-analysis framework, including: (1) collection and abstraction of the relevant literatuconstruction of a database to store the abstracted study parameters; (3) selection and integration osoftware; and (4) development of mechanisms for regular updating and dissemination of the database asoftware. Building on this framework, Phase II of the project will focus on carrying out a variety oto generate estimates of treatment effectiveness that take into account such covariates as drug typeclient demographics. The Phase III commercialization activities might include on-going maintenancethe drug abuse treatment outcome research database as well as adaptation of the approach to other imdomains.