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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, E P, Fischer, A F, Lehman   +2 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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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, R W, Manderscheid, L M, Flynn, D M, Steinwachs   +3 more
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Here comes the SUN: Self‐assessed unmet need, worsening health outcomes, and health care inequity

Health Economics, 2019
SummaryUtilization‐based approaches have predominated the measurement of socioeconomic‐related inequity in health care. This approach, however, can be misleading when preferences over health and health care are correlated with socioeconomic status, especially when the underlying focus is on equity of access.
Grant Gibson, Michel Grignon, Jeremiah Hurley, Li Wang   +3 more
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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, Pinggera, GM, De Jonge, P, Strasser, H, Sollner, W   +4 more
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Outdoor Behavioral Health Care: A Longitudinal Assessment of Young Adult Outcomes

Journal of Counseling & Development, 2017
This article details a 3‐year outdoor behavioral health care outcome study. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to analyze data from 186 young adults in a wilderness therapy program. Participants completed the Outcome Questionnaire–45.2 (Lambert et al., ) 6 times from Week 1 to 18‐month postdischarge follow‐up.
Sean D. Roberts, Daniel Stroud, Matthew J. Hoag, Katie E. Massey   +3 more
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Linking needs assessment in continuing medical education to health care outcomes

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 1994
There is currently a need in the health care industry to develop and implement strategies to improve both the quality and cost effectiveness of health care delivery. Continuing medical education (CME), like other components of the health care system, is being pressured for more accountability in physician education programs.
Robert R. Smedley, Albert J. Finestone, Catherine Thomas-King, Pauline Sylvester   +3 more
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