Early return to hospital is a frequently measured outcome in mental health system
performance monitoring yet its validity for evaluating quality of inpatient care is unclear. This …

BackgroundOutcomes research involves the secondary analysis of data collected routinely
by clinical services, in order to judge the effectiveness of interventions and policy initiatives …

Background/Objectives. This study compares quality of preventive services between
persons with and without mental/substance use disorders for a national sample of medical …

This study compares the cost-effectiveness of Navigate (NAV), a comprehensive,
multidisciplinary, team-based treatment approach for first episode psychosis (FEP) and …

Recent public attention on homelessness has shifted beyond emergency services and
supportive housing to primary prevention. This study compares a national sample of …

OBJECTIVE: The population of persons with mental disorders is potentially vulnerable to
poor quality of medical care. This study examined the relationship between mental disorders …

OBJECTIVE: This study explores suicide rates as a quality measure and identifies risk
factors for suicide among psychiatric inpatients. METHOD: Data from a prospective mortality …

Objective: There are growing concerns about the mental health status of returning veterans
from the recent conflicts in Iraq (Operation Iraq Freedom [OIF]) and Afghanistan (Operation …

The authors estimated the validity of algorithms for identification of mental health conditions
(MHCs) in administrative data for the 133 068 diabetic patients who used Veterans Health …

Objectives: Bipolar disorder is a severe, recurrent, and often highly impairing psychiatric
disorder. The Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP‐BD) …