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Developing mental health-care quality indicators: toward a common framework.
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PMID:  23175534     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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OBJECTIVE: /st>Inconsistent performance measurement schemes hinder attempts to make international comparisons about mental health-care quality. This report describes a project undertaken by an international collaborative group that aims to develop a common framework of measures that will allow for international comparisons of mental health system performance. DESIGN: /st>Representatives from each country submitted reports of quality measurement initiatives in mental health. Indicators were reviewed, and all measurable indicators were compiled and organized.SampleTwenty-nine programs from 11 countries and two cross-national programs submitted reports. METHODS: /st>Indicators were evaluated according to measurable inclusion criteria. RESULTS: /st>These methods yielded 656 total measures that were organized into 17 domains and 80 subdomains. CONCLUSIONS: /st>No single program contained indicators in all domains, highlighting the need for a comprehensive, shared scheme for international measurement. By collecting and organizing measures through an inductive compilation of existing programs, the present study has generated a maximally inclusive basis for the creation of a common framework of international mental health quality indicators.
Authors:
Carl Erik Fisher; Brigitta Spaeth-Rublee; Harold Alan Pincus;
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-11-21
Journal Detail:
Title:  International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care / ISQua     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1464-3677     ISO Abbreviation:  Int J Qual Health Care     Publication Date:  2012 Nov 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-11-23     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9434628     Medline TA:  Int J Qual Health Care     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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1Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
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