Dr Nicola Black from NDARC presented at the 2020 NDARC Webinar Series on Thursday, 23 April 2020 (53 minutes Youtube video). In this seminar, a new core outcome set for substance use and addictive behaviour disorders is presented, and the methodology for development described.

Value in healthcare is defined as the outcomes of care relative to costs. An essential element to achieving value in healthcare is to understand which outcomes matter most to patients, and to be able to measure and compare these routinely in clinical practice. The goal of the current work was to develop a minimum, standardised set of outcome measures that could be implemented globally across intervention settings for substance use and addictive behaviour disorders. Dr Black presents the methods and results of an international, multidisciplinary consensus-based approach to developing this standard set.