Abstract
Aims and method: Modern mental healthcare providers must demonstrate service-level clinical effectiveness to key stakeholders. We 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. We present outcome data from the period 2004-2007. Results: 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. Clinical implications: 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 285-288 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Psychiatric Bulletin |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Open Access - Access Right Statement
© Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2009. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- mental health services
- outcome assessment (medical care)