TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical outcomes assessment in behavioral healthcare
T2 - searching for practical solutions.
AU - Madan, Alok
AU - Borckardt, Jeffrey
AU - Weinstein, Ben
AU - Wagner, Mark
AU - Dominick, Cynthia
AU - Cooney, Harriet
AU - Herbert, Joan
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Most quality management initiatives in behavioral healthcare have focused on adverse events, clinical processes, or cost variables. Considerably less attention has been paid to indices of clinical improvement, likely because of a lack of agreed-upon measures of improvement, a lack of availability of simple methods for data collection and analysis, and an inability to provide timely feedback regarding clinical improvement, among other reasons. A computerized system was designed to collect relevant psychiatric symptom ratings in a manner that allows for real-time feedback at the patient and clinician Levels regarding clinical improvement and for higher-level, administrative evaluation of overall clinic performance. The costs and benefits of this system are discussed.
AB - Most quality management initiatives in behavioral healthcare have focused on adverse events, clinical processes, or cost variables. Considerably less attention has been paid to indices of clinical improvement, likely because of a lack of agreed-upon measures of improvement, a lack of availability of simple methods for data collection and analysis, and an inability to provide timely feedback regarding clinical improvement, among other reasons. A computerized system was designed to collect relevant psychiatric symptom ratings in a manner that allows for real-time feedback at the patient and clinician Levels regarding clinical improvement and for higher-level, administrative evaluation of overall clinic performance. The costs and benefits of this system are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1945-1474.2008.tb01152.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1945-1474.2008.tb01152.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 18680925
AN - SCOPUS:49649128461
VL - 30
SP - 30
EP - 37
JO - Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality
JF - Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality
SN - 1062-2551
IS - 4
ER -