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Managing outcome performance in mental health using HoNOS
— experience at St Andrew's Healthcare | | Author(s) | Philip Sugarman, Lorraine Walker, Geoff Dickens |
| Journal title | Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 33, no 8, August 2009 |
| Pages | pp 285-288 |
| Source | http://pb.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Psychiatric treatment ; Performance ; Indicators ; Essex ; Northampton. |
| Annotation | Modern mental healthcare providers must demonstrate service-level clinical effectiveness to key stakeholders. The authors introduced two performance indicators of clinical effectiveness based on outcome data from routinely collected Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and HoNOS-secure assessments across St Andrew's Healthcare, a charity providing in-patient services in Northampton and Essex. Presented are outcome data from the period 2004-2007. The indicators showed consistent 90-day improvement rates and increasing stability over time. The validity of results is supported by levels of change along predicted lines among different patient cohorts. It is possible and beneficial to use routine outcome measures to demonstrate clinical effectiveness at service level. The future of managing mental health outcomes will be in electronic health records systems. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090917208 A |
| Classmark | E: LP: 5H: 3RI: 8ES: 8NAD |
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