Summary: | The Treatment Episode Data Set
(TEDS) is an administrative data system providing descriptive
information about the national flow of admissions to providers of
substance abuse treatment. The TEDS is a continuation of the former
Client Data System (CDS) that was originally developed by the Alcohol,
Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Administration (predecessor to
SAMHSA) in consultation with representatives of the state substance
abuse agencies and appropriate national organizations. TEDS is one of
the three components of SAMHSA's Drug and Alcohol Services Information
System (DASIS). The core of DASIS is the Inventory of Substance Abuse
Treatment Services (I-SATS), formerly known as the National Master
Facility Inventory (NMFI). The I-SATS is a continuously-updated
comprehensive listing of all known substance abuse treatment
facilities. The third component of DASIS is the National Survey of
Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), formerly called the
Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS) survey. The N-SSATS is an annual
survey of the location, characteristics, and utilization of alcoholism
and drug abuse treatment facilities. The N-SSATS/UFDS is available
from the SAMHDA Web site. Together, they provide national- and
state-level information on the numbers and characteristics of
individuals admitted to alcohol and drug treatment and describe the
facilities that deliver care to those individuals. TEDS includes
facilities that are licensed or certified by the state substance abuse
agency to provide substance abuse treatment (or are administratively
tracked for other reasons), and that are required by the states to
provide TEDS client-level data. While compromising a significant
proportion of all admissions to substance abuse treatment, TEDS does
not include all such admissions. The scope of admissions included in
TEDS is affected by differences in state reporting practices, varying
definitions of treatment admission, availability of public funds, and
public funding constraints. In 1997, TEDS was estimated to include 83
percent of TEDS-eligible admissions and 67 percent of all known
admissions. See the full documentation for additional
information. The TEDS series was designed to provide
annual data on the number and characteristics of persons admitted to
public and private substance abuse treatment programs receiving public
funding. TEDS includes both Minimum Data Set (MDS) data (required
reporting) and Supplemental Data Set (SuDS) data (optional reporting),
as reported to state substance abuse agencies by the treatment
programs. Additional variables, such as calculated age and census
region, are added to the state data. TEDS provides information on
service setting, number of prior treatments, primary source of
referral, employment status, whether methadone was prescribed in
treatment, presence of psychiatric problems, living arrangements,
health insurance, substance(s) abused, route of administration, age at
first use, pregnancy and veteran status, number of days waiting to
enter treatment, and demographic variables. The TEDS data
collection effort began in 1989 with three-year development grants to
states. Within each state, treatment providers that receive any state
agency funding, including the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and
Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant monies, are expected to provide TEDS data
for all clients admitted to treatment, regardless of the source of
funding for individual clients. TEDS is sponsored by the
Office of Applied Studies at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration. |
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