IntroductionStrengthening of mental health information systems (MHIS) is essential to
monitor and evaluate mental health services in low and middle-income countries. While …

Importance Access to specialty mental health care remains challenging for people with
serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Whether expansion of …

Rationale aims and objectives As quality measurement becomes increasingly reliant on the
availability of structured electronic medical record (EMR) data, clinicians are asked to …

Patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and another co-occurring psychiatric disorder are a
vulnerable population with high symptom severity. Such patients may benefit from a full …

We outline the development of a Mental Health Domain to track accessibility and quality of
mental health care in the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA) as part of a …

Background Active consideration of effective medications to treat alcohol use disorder (AUD)
is a consensus standard of care, yet knowledge and use of these medications are very low …

Background Military sexual trauma (MST) is associated with negative mental health
outcomes. Mental health beliefs, such as stigma or secondary victimization, have been …

Over 16 million Americans meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder (AUD), but only
7.8% of them receive formal treatment each year. Safe and effective pharmacological …

Background In order to monitor and ultimately improve the quality of addiction treatment,
professional societies, health care systems, and addiction treatment programs must …

Background As a quality improvement metric, the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
monitors the proportion of patients with alcohol use disorders (AUD) who receive FDA …