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Front Matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Gaps Between Research, Treatment, and Policy -- 3 Approaches to Closing the Gaps -- 4 Benefits and Challenges of Research Collaboration for Community-Based Treatment Providers -- 5 Benefits and Challenges of Community-Based Collaboration for Researchers -- 6 Findings and Recommendations -- A Statement of Task -- B Workshops and Roundtable: Agendas and Participants -- C Drug Treatment Programs and Research: The Challenge of Bidirectionality -- D The Treatment of Addiction: What Can Research Offer Practice? -- E The Substance Abuse Treatment System: What Does It Look Like and Whom Does It Serve? -- F National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Statement on Effective Medical Treatment of Heroin Addiction -- G Useful Internet Resources-Examples -- H List of Currently Available CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) -- I Opportunities for Collaboration -- J Summary of Interviews with Minnesota State Alcoholism-Addiction Leaders -- Index.

Evaluation of long-term care programs has suffered from a lack of comparable, reliable data, both within and across programs. This article discusses a methodology for development of clinical/research assessment tools, training of assessment interviewers, and ongoing checking of interrater reliability, applied to a multisite national health and long-term care demonstration. Audio tapes of case managers' clinical assessment interviews are extensively used. Reliability results are fed back into an ongoing training program. First year results are reported, showing steady improvement across all sites in reliability of data from a complex assessment instrument. The program has potential for wide application and improvement of data bases that are important for future development of public policy in long-term care.