Monitoring quality and coverage of harm reduction services for people who use drugs: A consensus study
dc.contributor.author | COMISKEY, CATHERINE | |
dc.contributor.author | Wiessing, Lucas | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferri, Marica | |
dc.contributor.author | Běláčková, Vendula | |
dc.contributor.author | Carrieri, Patrizia | |
dc.contributor.author | Friedman, Samuel R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Folch, Cinta | |
dc.contributor.author | Dolan, Kate | |
dc.contributor.author | Galvin, Brian | |
dc.contributor.author | Vickerman, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Lazarus, Jeffrey V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mravčík, Viktor | |
dc.contributor.author | Kretzschmar, Mirjam | |
dc.contributor.author | Sypsa, Vana | |
dc.contributor.author | Sarasa-Renedo, Ana | |
dc.contributor.author | Uusküla, Anneli | |
dc.contributor.author | Paraskevis, Dimitrios | |
dc.contributor.author | Mendão, Luis | |
dc.contributor.author | Rossi, Diana | |
dc.contributor.author | van Gelder, Nadine | |
dc.contributor.author | Mitcheson, Luke | |
dc.contributor.author | Paoli, Letizia | |
dc.contributor.author | Diaz Gomez, Cristina | |
dc.contributor.author | Milhet, Maitena | |
dc.contributor.author | Dascalu, Nicoleta | |
dc.contributor.author | Knight, Jonathan | |
dc.contributor.author | Hay, Gordon | |
dc.contributor.author | Kalamara, Eleni | |
dc.contributor.author | Simon, Roland | |
dc.contributor.author | EUBEST Working Group | |
dc.contributor.author | Rossi, Carla | |
dc.contributor.author | Griffiths, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-23T13:19:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-23T13:19:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Wiessing, L., Ferri, M., Běláčková, V., Carrieri, P., Friedman, S.R., Folch, C., Dolan, K., Galvin, B., Vickerman, P., Lazarus, J.V., Mravčík, V., Kretzschmar, M., Sypsa, V., Sarasa-Renedo, A., Uusküla, A., Paraskevis, D., Mendão, L., Rossi, D., van Gelder, N., Mitcheson, L., Paoli, L., Gomez, C.D., Milhet, M., Dascalu, N., Knight, J., Hay, G., Kalamara, E., Simon, R., Comiskey, C., Rossi, C. & Griffiths., Monitoring quality and coverage of harm reduction services for people who use drugs: A consensus study, Harm Reduction Journal, 14, 1, 2017 | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-017-0141-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/91853 | |
dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
dc.description.abstract | Background and aims: Despite advances in our knowledge of effective services for people who use drugs over the last decades globally, coverage remains poor in most countries, while quality is often unknown. This paper aims to discuss the historical development of successful epidemiological indicators and to present a framework for extending them with additional indicators of coverage and quality of harm reduction services, for monitoring and evaluation at international, national or subnational levels. The ultimate aim is to improve these services in order to reduce health and social problems among people who use drugs, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, crime and legal problems, overdose (death) and other morbidity and mortality. Methods and results: The framework was developed collaboratively using consensus methods involving nominal group meetings, review of existing quality standards, repeated email commenting rounds and qualitative analysis of opinions/experiences from a broad range of professionals/experts, including members of civil society and organisations representing people who use drugs. Twelve priority candidate indicators are proposed for opioid agonist therapy (OAT), needle and syringe programmes (NSP) and generic cross-cutting aspects of harm reduction (and potentially other drug) services. Under the specific OAT indicators, priority indicators included ‘coverage’, ‘waiting list time’, ‘dosage’ and ‘availability in prisons’. For the specific NSP indicators, the priority indicators included ‘coverage’, ‘number of needles/syringes distributed/collected’, ‘provision of other drug use paraphernalia’ and ‘availability in prisons’. Among the generic or cross-cutting indicators the priority indicators were ‘infectious diseases counselling and care’, ‘take away naloxone’, ‘information on safe use/sex’ and ‘condoms’. We discuss conditions for the successful development of the suggested indicators and constraints (e.g. funding, ideology). We propose conducting a pilot study to test the feasibility and applicability of the proposed indicators before their scaling up and routine implementation, to evaluate their effectiveness in comparing service coverage and quality across countries. Conclusions: The establishment of an improved set of validated and internationally agreed upon best practice indicators for monitoring harm reduction service will provide a structural basis for public health and epidemiological studies and support evidence and human rights-based health policies, services and interventions. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Viktor Mravčík was supported by the institutional support no. PRVOUK-P03/LF1/9 and the Project Nr. LO1611 with a financial support from the Czech Ministry of Youth and Sport under the NPU I program. Sam Friedman was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse Grants R01 DA13336 (Community Vulnerability and Response to IDU-Related HIV); DP1 DA034989 (HIV Transmission by Recently-Infected Drug Users); and P30 DA11041 (Center for Drug Use and HIV Research). Ana Sarasa-Renedo, Jeffrey V. Lazarus and Viktor Mravčík were supported by the joint action ‘677085/HA-REACT’ (‘The Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction’), which has received funding from the European Union’s Health Programme (2014–2020) | en |
dc.format.extent | 19 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Harm Reduction Journal; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 14; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1; | |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | Substance abuse | en |
dc.subject | People who use drugs | en |
dc.subject | People who inject drugs | en |
dc.subject | Injecting drug users | en |
dc.subject | Best practice | en |
dc.subject | Harm reduction | en |
dc.subject | Knowledge exchange | en |
dc.subject | Interventions | en |
dc.subject | Indicators | en |
dc.subject | Coverage | en |
dc.subject | Epidemiology | en |
dc.subject | HIV | en |
dc.subject | HCV | en |
dc.subject | Monitoring | en |
dc.subject | Evidence-based | en |
dc.subject | Drug services | en |
dc.title | Monitoring quality and coverage of harm reduction services for people who use drugs: A consensus study | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/ccomiske | |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 170164 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0141-6 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0141-6 | |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess |
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