Drug treatment effectiveness to be put to the - quick and simple to use - test / NHS, 31 May 2007
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"A new tool designed to measure real outcomes for clients in drug treatment in England will be the first to become fully applied to any national clinical practice or drug treatment monitoring system. Developed by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) in partnership with Dr John Marsden and Dr Michael Farrell - leading researchers in outcomes monitoring in substance misuse - the Treatment Outcomes Profile (TOP) is a series of simple questions to measure outcomes in a way that is sensitive to change over time."