TY - JOUR
T1 - Population-based guidelines for performance measurement
T2 - A preliminary report
AU - McFarland, Bentson H.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This paper describes the development of - and early efforts to validate - guidelines that indicate average amounts of service expected to be used by a population of patients with a given disorder who are served by a comprehensive mental health system. These guidelines address expected service use by individuals in 55 diagnostic groups. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide a gauge for evaluating the amounts of service being delivered by managed care organizations. Three population-based guidelines (for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia) are compared to actual amounts of service delivered to enrollees in large behavioral health care systems.
AB - This paper describes the development of - and early efforts to validate - guidelines that indicate average amounts of service expected to be used by a population of patients with a given disorder who are served by a comprehensive mental health system. These guidelines address expected service use by individuals in 55 diagnostic groups. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide a gauge for evaluating the amounts of service being delivered by managed care organizations. Three population-based guidelines (for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia) are compared to actual amounts of service delivered to enrollees in large behavioral health care systems.
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U2 - 10.3109/10673229809010951
DO - 10.3109/10673229809010951
M3 - Article
C2 - 10370430
AN - SCOPUS:0031776616
SN - 1067-3229
VL - 6
SP - 23
EP - 37
JO - Harvard Review of Psychiatry
JF - Harvard Review of Psychiatry
IS - 1
ER -