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Building A Participant Driven System For Missourians with Developmental Disabilities
Date: 08/1998
Author(s): John Agosta, Ph.D., Gary Smith
Weaver Founds New Consumer Research Center
This issue presents excerpts from an interview with Paul Weaver, Ph.D., Director of the newly formed Kentucky Center for Mental Health Studies, Inc. (KCMHS). KCMHS is a consumer-governed research institute designed to support mental health service consumers to conduct and collaborate in conducting mental health clinical and services research. … Read More
Date: 07/1998
Author(s): Evaluation Center@HSRI
Mortality Can Be a Powerful Performance Indicator
The issue discusses the growing evidence that measures of mortality in a mental health service recipient population can be powerful indicators of system performance. Massachusetts’ Department of Mental Health is used as a case study. … Read More
Date: 05/1998
Author(s): Evaluation Center@HSRI
Cochrane Library is Resource for Service Effectiveness
This issue reviews the Cochrane Collaboration and Library, a resource for systematic reviews of literature on the effectiveness of mental health services. … Read More
Date: 04/1998
Author(s): Evaluation Center @ HSRI
Implementing Outcomes Management Systems in Mental Health Settings
Outcomes management is a recently described process to improve the outcomes and quality of care. The goal of outcomes management is to increase the effectiveness of health care interventions received by clients using a systematic assessment of clinical processes and outcomes and the provision of this information to those involved in treatment. Considerable work has been conducted to develop and adapt this methodology for the mental health care setting; however, little information exists on the … Read More
Date: 8/1997
Author(s): G. Richard Smith, Jr., M.D., Carol Nordquist, M.A., Ellen P. Fischer, Ph.D., Cindy Mosley, Nancy S. Ledbetter, M.B.A.