Data Enhancement Project

The overarching goal of this task order is to improve the existing data resource to better meet FDA's data needs for regulating opioids and other products with abuse potential. The objectives of the Data Resource Verification, Enhancement, Validation, and Refinement project are (1) to gain a better understanding of the representativeness of data collected from individuals entering or being assessed for substance use disorder treatment in the Addiction Severity Index-Multimedia Version (ASI-MV) network, which is based on the Addiction Severity Index (ASI). The ASI is an evidence-based, client self-administered assessment tool that has been used by clinicians to develop patients entering substance abuse treatment services (2) to explore the feasibility of and potential strategies for obtaining a national probability sample derived from a mutually agreed upon well-defined underlying population, (3) to assess the extent and characteristics of misclassification in the NAVIPPRO ASI-MV surveillance system, and (4) to develop approaches for improved ascertainment and analytic approaches that address existing misclassification.