Using Outcome and Quality Measures to Drive Improvement in Care

Strategies to improve the quality of the health care system often are based on measuring performance. Psychiatry has lagged behind other disciplines in using quality standards. Participants will learn the value and methods of integrating quality and patient outcome measures in clinical practice and...

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Published inJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 57; no. 10; p. S80
Main Authors Sorter, Michael T., Zima, Bonnie T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Elsevier Inc 01.10.2018
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Clinical medicine
Clinical outcomes
Clinical standards
Health care
Patients
Psychiatry
Quality of care
Quality standards
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Summary:Strategies to improve the quality of the health care system often are based on measuring performance. Psychiatry has lagged behind other disciplines in using quality standards. Participants will learn the value and methods of integrating quality and patient outcome measures in clinical practice and how such measures can be used to direct efforts to enhance patient care.
ISSN:0890-8567
1527-5418
DOI:10.1016/j.jaac.2018.07.335