Post-Treatment Outcomes Research

Vista's Post-Treatment Outcomes Research

Vista Research Group was created in September 2015 with a single purpose – to build an outcomes research system that accurately and cost-effectively measures the percentage of patients able to meet their drug and alcohol usage goals after addiction treatment.

Five years later, following a research protocol that complies with the Outcomes Research Standards created by Conquer Addiction’s panel of addiction treatment experts, Vista is able to report post-treatment outcomes results for more than 10,000 patients attending a wide variety of commercial addiction treatment programs across the U.S.

The good news is that Vista’s results show that high-quality abstinence-based commercial addiction treatment works:

The bad news is that the Vista’s post-treatment abstinence results are almost identical to those reported in the last federally-funded addiction treatment outcomes research in the early 1990s!

Vista's Outcomes Research Results compared to DATOS

Fortunately, though, we now know how to improve. The experience of Vista Research Network members proves that Peter Drucker was right that “what gets measured gets managed”. Among the 17 treatment programs who’ve been tracking their post-treatment outcomes for more than a year, 14 (82%!) have better outcomes in Year 2 than in their first year. And Year 2 outcomes across this entire group are 20% better on average than those in Year 1:

Year to year improvement in outcomes research

Learn More About Vista's Outcomes Research:

Vista regularly publishes its results for the benefit of the entire treatment industry. Learnings from Three Years of Addiction Treatment Outcomes Research can be downloaded below:

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Do you want to join a community of treatment professionals who are fervently committed to providing every patient with the best possible chance of recovering from addiction and/or mental illness? Members of the Vista Research Network use state-of-the-art software to monitor patients during treatment and follow up with them afterwards to learn how effective their treatment was in helping them recover. Not only are clinicians able to use to easily personalize the treatment they provide, but Vista’s trailblazing data analytics platform and comprehensive research reports help owners and managers continually monitor and improve their center’s effectiveness.

Vista Research Group monitors your patients during treatment and follows up with them afterwards so you can help more of your patients recover from addiction.

Once Vista’s research agreement is signed, a 30-minute Implementation Meeting will be scheduled with your leadership team to understand how your center is structured and what data you want to collect. After this meeting, the only additional information Vista will need is a list of users needing access to the software. Vista is usually able to customize the software for a new center within 24 hours of receiving this patient list.

During online training sessions, Vista will explain why progress monitoring helps patients get better faster, demonstrate the key features of the software, discuss best practices, and answer any questions your team has.

Training videos and step-by-step instructions are available in Vista’s private community as well as in a searchable Knowledge Base. Vista also provides live phone and email support seven days a week to answer any questions new users might have.