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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2007 Feb 22;32(4):321–329. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2006.05.021

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics

Variable Outside CTN (n=766) Within CTN (n=240) Significance (p)
Adopted buprenorphinea 11.1 20.0 <.001
Adopted motivational incentivesa 31.2 33.8 ns
Operating revenues from public sources (M) 47.8 51.9 ns
For-profit structure 17.9 12.4 <.029
Accredited by JCAHO or CARF 48.1 65.6 <.001
Surveys buyers, suppliers, or both 77.3 70.1 <.016
Offers detoxification services 29.1 18.6 <.001
Outpatient-only services 46.9 52.7 ns
FTEs (M) 34.0 33.7 ns
Physician(s) on staff or contract 69.3 71.8 ns
Master's level counselors 44.5 44.5 ns
Primary opiate clientsb 15.9 41.8 <.000
Program experience in clinical research 41.7 41.1 ns
a

Adoption of buprenorphine and incentives was measured on 6-month follow-up interview. All other variables were measured at baseline interview.

b

Removal of methadone units from CTN sample reduced the average opiate clients to 18.3% of CTN caseloads, which is still significantly higher than in non-CTN settings (p<.05).