Publications
In this section you will find documents relating to measuring outcomes.
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Measuring quality in mental health services in the United States
This report assesses how the quality of mental health services is being measured, in practice, in the United States. It examines: what is being measured, in which populations, at what level of the mental health care system, by whom, and how information is reported and utilized.
Evidence of Recovery: The 'Ups' and 'Downs' of Longitudinal Outcomes Studies
This discussion paper provides an overview of aome of the findings of longitudinal mental health outcomes studies that have been conducted in the course of the last few decades in differnet countries and with differnet patient groups.
Supporting Commissioners to deliver better outcomes for children and young people
This toolkit has been designed to engage workers at various levels in agencies in a new approach to the commissioning of services for children and young people in delivering the Every Child Matters5 outcomes
Outcomes to measure in routine mental health services and to assess them
The goals of this review were (i) to identify principles that have been proposed for implementing routine outcomes assessment. (ii) to identify the full range of outcome domains that have been proposed for assessment, and (iii) to synthesize proposals for specific outcome domains into emergent catagories.
Department of Health commissioning framework
This document provides an update about health reform. It then focuses on commissioning NHS services, and in particular hospital services. It sets out a framework detailing key changes designed to strengthen commissioning and ensure commissioning drives health reform, improved health and healthcare, and improved financial health for the NHS.
This report investigates imlications for health and social care bugets on investmnet in housing adaptions, improvements and equiptment.
Evaluating patient-based outcome measures for use in clinical trials
This report aims to i]describe the diversity and reasons for diversity of available patient-based outcome measures ii]to make clear that criteria investigators should have in mind when they select patient-based outcomes measures for use in clinical trial
Outcomes assessment in routine clinical practice in psychosocial services
This paper is the first of a series to be produced by teh centre for outcomes reaearch and effectiveness [CORE} which aims to provide evidence-based, practical advice on what measures might be used and about their implementation in clinical practice
