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Towards a System of Outcome Indicators for Mental Health Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rachel Jenkins
Rachel Jenkins*
Affiliation:
Mental Health Division, Department of Health, Alexander Fleming House, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6BY, and Institute of Psychiatry
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Abstract

A system of outcome indicators for mental health care is urgently needed in order to ensure that clinicians, district health authorities, and directors of public health can monitor and evaluate mental health care. Theoretical aspects of health care indicators and the various classes of outcome measures available can be used to draw up a preliminary system of indicators of health care input, process and outcome for the major categories of mental illness, including schizophrenia, affective psychosis, neurosis, dementia, mental handicap, child psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, alcohol and drugs. Such a system is not intended to be definitive or exhaustive but rather to form a basis for development by clinicians, researchers and planners for their own requirements.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 500 - 514
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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