TY  - JOUR
T1  - INsufficient information in drug-related hospital morbidity study
AU  - Newman RG
Y1  - 2009/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.549
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 331
EP  - 332
VL  - 66
IS  - 3
N2  - 
For methadone treatment, there is reference to “statewide annual report estimates” of retention for inpatient methadone maintenance treatment (could there really be such programs in Australia?) and for outpatient services. However, based on those statewide figures, without even a time frame as to duration of retention, one cannot venture a guess as to how many of the 522 individuals starting methadone treatment and included in this analysis remained in treatment for a few days or conceivably for the entire 3½-year observation period after enrollment. In any event, the reader also has no way of ascertaining the intervals between “hospital morbidity” and the last administration of methadone; here, too, it might have been a day or more than 3 years.

SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.549
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.549
ER  -