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Toolkit on Evaluating Quality of Life for Persons with Severe Mental Illness
The Quality of Life (QOL) Toolkit provides complete instructions for assessing quality of life for persons with severe mental illness. It includes a discussion of the concept of quality of life, a review of instruments that have been used in QOL assessments, the full version of the Lehman QOL Interview (in hard copy and on disk) with training manual; the Brief Version of the QOLI (in hard copy and on disk) with training manual; information … Read More
Date: 1/1995
Author(s): Anthony Lehman, MD, MSPH, Eimer Kernan, M.S.W., Leticia Postrado, Ph.D.
HCFA Task A Report
A review of outcome-based quality assurance mechanisms around the country and implications of these and trends for ICF/MR regulations. … Read More
Date: 07/1995
Author(s): Valerie J Bradley, Jaskulski, Madeleine Kimmich, Barbara Raab, Julie Silver, Marianne Taylor
Cluster Analysis of Service Data
The purpose of this short working paper is to introduce cluster analysis and illustrate its application to analyzing mental health service utilization data in the context of managed care and systems evaluation. While this exposition may not be sufficient to understand all the complexities of the procedure, it will enable people with elementary statistic knowledge to use software packages intelligently. The paper provides references to several texts on cluster analysis for those interested in furthering … Read More
Date: 06/1995
Author(s): H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D., Marcus Leiberman, Ph.D., & Matthew M. Wise, MPH.
Decategorization as a Strategy for Comprehensive Community- Based Planning
Date: 06/1995
Author(s): Madeleine Kimmich, Mary Coacher, Binnie LeHew, Mark Robbins
StakeHolder Perspectives on Performance Indicators
This material is a two-part document containing “A Compilation Of The Literature On What Consumers Want From Mental Health Services” and “Performance Indicators For A Consumer-Oriented Mental Health Report Card: Literature Review & Analysis.” Both are working papers prepared for the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP) Task Force on the Development of a Mental Health Care Report … Read More
Date: 03/1995
Author(s): Virginia Mulkern, Ph.D., H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D.,Rex S. Green, Ph.D., Frederick Newman, Ph.D.