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Purchasers of mental health care want clear, reliable, meaningful and comparable information on what care is provided and with what results. APA convened these two task forces to lend its professional expertise to that issue, to advise on how to develop clinically based, patient focused quality indicators that use existing and ongoing research and clinical consensus in selecting potential indicators.

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The structured process utilized by the task forces provides and excellent model for efforts to define additional, clinically meaningful quality indicators. Individual clinicians may also find the discussions informative, both as an introduction to the area of quality monitoring and as an impetus to examine their current practice patterns in light of increasing demands for implementation of evidence-based practices in the routine course of patient care. -- Justin J. Trevino, M.D., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , April 2004

The structured process utilized by the task forces provides and excellent model for efforts to define additional, clinically meaningful quality indicators. Individual clinicians may also find the discussions informative, both as an introduction to the area of quality monitoring and as an impetus to examine their current practice patterns in light of increasing demands for implementation of evidence-based practices in the routine course of patient care. -- Justin J. Trevino, M.D. * Journal of Clinical Psychiatry *

<p> The structured process utilized by the task forces provides and excellent model for efforts to define additional, clinically meaningful quality indicators. Individual clinicians may also find the discussions informative, both as an introduction to the area of quality monitoring and as an impetus to examine their current practice patterns in light of increasing demands for implementation of evidence-based practices in the routine course of patient care. -- Justin J. Trevino, M.D., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , April 2004

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