Overview

This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of how mental health care can be improved through commitment to quality. Topics include maintaining professional ethics in a changing health care system; quality of care in an era of Wall Street medicine; can managed care deliver quality?; the role of academic medical centres in achieving quality; measuring quality - an overview; and risk adjustment of clinical outcome data.

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Author:   Barbara Dickey, PhD (Cambridge Health Alliance ) ,  Lloyd I. Sederer, MD
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780880489638

ISBN 10:   0880489634
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   02 March 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

About the Editors Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Challenges Introduction Chapter 1. The President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry Chapter 2. Maintaining professional ethics in a changing health care system Chapter 3. Quality of care in an era of Wall Street medicine Chapter 4. Can managed care deliver quality? Chapter 5. Role of academic medical centers in achieving quality Part II: Quality Measurement Introduction Chapter 6. Measuring quality: An overview Chapter 7. Risk adjustment of clinical outcome data Chapter 8. Building partnerships in accountability: Consumer satisfaction Chapter 9. Toward a national report card: Measuring consumer experiences Chapter 10. Practical steps toward quality improvement: A public sector example Chapter 11. The American Psychiatric Association's agenda for evidence-based quality Chapter 12. Status of national efforts to improve accountability for quality Part III: Case Reports Introduction Chapter 13. Intensive psychiatric community care in the Department of Veteran's Affairs Chapter 14. A national strategy to reduce depression and suicide in England Chapter 15. The Texas Medication Algorithm Project Chapter 16. Improving the quality of community-based services for children Chapter 17. Improved emergency access for Medicaid clients: A Colorado case study Chapter 18. Improving employment outcomes for people with severe psychiatric disabilities Chapter 19. Matching substance abuse patients to services Chapter 20. Adverse drug reactions: An interdisciplinary team approach Chapter 21. High-risk Medicaid enrollees and a community-based support program Chapter 22. Increasing consumer involvement in treatment Chapter 23. Improving the detection of mental disorders by primary care clinicians Chapter 24. Reducing the incidence of restraint and seclusion Chapter 25. Using dialectical behavior therapy in the treatment of borderline personality disorder Chapter 26. Reducing the risk of falls for elderly patients Afterword Index

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<p> Improving Mental Health Care will appeal to a broad audience. It provides both practical guidance and encouragement to anyone interested in systems change and the possibilities for improving care in a difficult practice environment. In a time of brooding pessimism and dangerous passivity, it provides an antidote and a practical model for moving forward into the coming era. -- Michael Bennett, M.D., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , April 2003

Author Information

Barbara Dickey, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and The Cambridge Hospital. She has been active in hospital quality improvement efforts and has a long academic career in health services research. She has published widely in the fields of outcome research, homelessness, and the effects of managed care on costs and outcomes for people with serious mental illness. She is leading a research study of the quality of care for adults with schizophrenia, comparing the treatments and outcomes of people in managed care with those whose care is not managed. With Dr. Sederer, she coedited Outcomes Assessment in Clinical Practice. Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D., was Medical Director and Executive Vice President of McLean Hospital at the time this book was being prepared. In this role, he directed the hospital's clinical services, including its special emphasis on clinical quality assessment and quality improvement. He is now Director of the Division of Clinical Services at the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. Dr. Sederer is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has published 10 books and over 125 articles, reviews, chapters, and monographs. He has consulted nationally and internationally on clinical care and service delivery, quality improvement, risk management, and the regulation and reimbursement of medical care.

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