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Outcomes assessment: Information for improving mental health care

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1996
AbstractFindings from ongoing assessments in two states illustrate strategies for using outcomes information.
D M, Steinwachs   +2 more
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Principles for assessment of patient outcomes in mental health care

Psychiatric Services, 1997
With the dramatic changes that are occurring in mental health and substance abuse treatment systems, it is imperative that the field keep its focus on the patient and the patient's outcomes of care. Outcomes management systems that measure the processes of care, the patient's characteristics, and the patient's outcomes of care can be helpful in ...
G R, Smith   +3 more
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Using patient-reported outcome measures to assess health-care quality

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2012
The transparency of surgical outcomes data and the drive for quality has been highlighted since the public inquiry, led by Professor Ian Kennedy, into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. This was formalized in Lord Darzi's 2008 report High Quality Care for All, that proposed the NHS should: 'systematically measure and publish ...
B A, Rogers, A D, Carrothers
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Severity of a case for outcome assessment in health care — definitions and classifications of instruments

Health Policy, 1996
Severity of a case is one of the ingredients in management systems. Severity adjustment systems have limitations, and confusion and diversity characterize definitions of severity of a case. These facts may be a consequence of lack of conceptual knowledge.
R T, Almeida, P, Carlsson
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Evaluability Assessment in Health Care: An Example of the Patient Care and Outcome Process

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1995
Abstract: Evaluability assessment is a critical first step toward successful program evaluation. Programs aimed at making difficult and significant changes to important health care services must be open to both the encouragement and the critical review that follow systematic evaluation efforts.
A. Casebeer, W. E. Thurston
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The Camberwell assessment of need as an outcome measure in routine mental health care

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2006
Subsidiary findings in several studies indicate that the standard summary scores (total number of needs, met needs and unmet needs) of the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) may conceal important differences among patient populations at the item level of the measure.
Erik, Wennström, Frits-Axel, Wiesel
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Outcomes Assessment in Health Care Reform: Promise and Limitations

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 1994
If the fundamental goals of the health care reform effort are to ensure universal access to an acceptable quality of health care at an affordable cost, then the threshold question for reform is: What health care services should be provided in an efficient, equitable system?Answering this question requires weighing a complex mix of medical and social ...
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Assessing Health Care Needs and Clinical Outcome With Urological Case Complexity: A Study Using INTERMED

Psychosomatics, 2003
Urinary tract symptoms and, particularly, urinary incontinence are often chronic and complex conditions that cause diagnosis, treatment, and management problems. In many cases, psychosocial factors contribute to the development of a chronic condition. The authors investigated whether INTERMED, an instrument for assessing case complexity and health care
Herms, AMRD   +4 more
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