The Dutch national alcohol and drugs database: Progress in monitoring, monitoring in progress

Citation
Aw. Ouwehand et Vcm. Van Alem, The Dutch national alcohol and drugs database: Progress in monitoring, monitoring in progress, EUR ADDIC R, 5(4), 1999, pp. 173-178
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science
Journal title
EUROPEAN ADDICTION RESEARCH
ISSN journal
10226877 → ACNP
Volume
5
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
173 - 178
Database
ISI
SICI code
1022-6877(199912)5:4<173:TDNAAD>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
The Dutch Alcohol and Drug Information System (LADIS) has been operational since 1986 and covers 95% of all alcohol and drug treatment out-patient ser vices in the Netherlands, From 1994 it has been operating as a population-b ased register in which contact episodes of individual clients can be linked over time with a unique code made anonymous by encryption methods, With th e acceptance of the welfare law in 1998, the flow of various categories of data (diagnostic, demographic, treatment and evaluation) and the continuity of LADIS have been secured. Data capture, processing and quality control a re highly automated, The information from LADIS concerns annual reports as well as numerous profiles of various groups of clients. The implementation of LADIS and the high deg ree of standardisation of the data collected have been strongly facilitated by the use of the underlying institutional appli cation ADDICTIS, Within the LADIS framework, almost 95% of the (European) T reatment Demand Indicator Protocol data set on drugs can be collected, Copy right (C) 1999 S. Karger AG, Basel.