2016.01.22
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Centerstone Research Institute has partnered with Indiana University’s Dr. Cara Lewis on a study to explore practical and more effective measurement-based care models in the…
2015.09.16
major-depressive-disordervideoarchived-virtual-forum
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious, chronic disabling illness, with residual symptoms causing significant psychosocial and occupational functional impairment. The virtual forum, led by…
2017.08.03
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticlenews
The Joint Commission is making its requirement for outcome measurement by addiction treatment programs more explicit. Effective January 1, 2018 accredited addiction treatment provider organizations…
2016.02.16
major-depressive-disordervideopresentation
During this recorded presentation, Mark Zimmerman, MD, provided a brief overview of the Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS), a measure that was developed to…
2017.02.13
care-coordination-optimization major-depressive-disorderarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Culpepper L. Does screening for depression in primary care improve outcome? Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2012;14:345–352, which was developed independently…
2016.03.04
major-depressive-disordervideopresentation
During this recorded presentation, Mark Zimmerman, MD, provided a brief overview of measurement-based scales and implementing patient-reported outcome scales (PROS) with the goal of improving…
2017.09.28
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Researchers have defined measurement-based care (MBC) as the practice of using patient-reported data to inform clinical care. MBC is an evidence-based practice that has been…
2015.12.14
major-depressive-disorder quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of McIntyre RS. Using measurement strategies to identify and monitor residual symptoms. J Clin Psychiatry. 2013;74[Suppl 2]:14−18, which was developed…
2018.05.21
major-depressive-disordervideocommunity-voices
In this interview, PsychU Major Depressive Disorder Section Editor, Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Director of the Center for Depression Research…
2015.03.11
major-depressive-disorderarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Zimmerman M, Martinez JA, Attiullah N, Friedman M, Toba C, Boerescu DA, Rahgeb M. Why Do Some Depressed Outpatients…
2017.11.15
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The Brief Patient Health Questionnaire (Brief PHQ) is a self-administered scale for assessing depressive disorders and panic disorders. It is derived from the depression questions…
2016.10.25
major-depressive-disorderarticlenews
Adults diagnosed with major depression who received an intervention called behavioral activation (BA) had clinical response outcomes similar to those achieved who received cognitive behavioral…
2018.01.10
major-depressive-disorderarticlenews
Depression screening within three months after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) event (such as a heart attack) identifies more than 97% of those with depression,…
2017.10.16
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The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-Item Scale (GAD-7) is a self-administered 7-item anxiety scale initially developed to diagnose generalized anxiety disorder. The GAD-7 also proved to…
2017.11.15
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The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a self-administered scale for assessing five of the most common types of mental disorders presenting in medical populations: depressive,…
2017.10.23
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The Patient Health Questionnaire 15 is a self-administered 15-item scale to measure somatic symptoms, with questions from the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ). The PHQ family…
2017.10.30
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The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 is a self-administered 9-item scale for assessing and monitoring depression severity. It is derived from the depression questions within the…
2017.10.18
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The Patient Health Questionnaire for Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms (PHQ-SADS) is a self-administered tool that includes questions from the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9)…
2015.06.10
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticlenews
On March 9, 2015, the National Quality Forum (NQF) announced it had endorsed 17 health care quality measures related to behavioral health conditions. Nine of…
2017.04.03
care-coordination-optimizationarticleperspective
Yesterday, I looked at the low rate of depression screening in primary care settings, which amounts to only 4.2% of adults and demonstrates a significant…
2016.02.16
care-coordination-optimization major-depressive-disorderarticlenews
Depression screening for adults age 18 and older should take place regularly in primary care, according to a new recommendation issued by the United States…
2017.09.13
care-coordination-optimization major-depressive-disorderarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of King CA, Horwitz A, Czyz E, and Lindsay R. Suicide Risk Screening in Health Care Settings: Identifying Males and…
2015.06.12
schizophreniavideopresentation
During this recorded presentation, Matt Byerly, MD, discussed the Brief Adherence Rating Scale (BARS). Key points included: Nonadherence to antipsychotic medication is associated with serious…
2017.08.21
bipolar-disorderdownloadable-resourcepsychiatric-scale
The Mood Disorder Questionnaire is a brief self-administered tool to screen (not diagnose) for bipolar disorder. It takes about five minutes to complete and should…
2017.08.28
bipolar-disorderarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Hoyle S, et al. Available screening tools for adults suffering from bipolar affective disorder in primary care: An integrative…
2017.04.19
bipolar-disorderarticleask-the-expert
What rating scales can be used to screen for, or assess symptoms of, bipolar disorder? Scales in bipolar disorder include screening scales such as the…
2016.05.06
major-depressive-disorderdownloadable-resourcepsychiatric-scale resource
The Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS) is a measure that was developed to assess the course of depression and the severity of depressive symptoms.…
2016.05.09
anxietyarticlepsychiatric-scale resource
The Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale (CUXOS) is a measure that was developed to assess the course of anxiety and the severity of anxiety symptoms.…
2016.09.15
stigmadownloadable-resourcepsychiatric-scale
The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC) was developed to measure mental illness-related stigma and to evaluate anti-stigma interventions in health care…
2017.09.25
stigmaarticleresearch-summary
Mental illness related stigma can make it more difficult for individuals to seek help and achieve recovery. Although one might expect health care providers to…
2016.11.16
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The PsychU National Stigma Forum was held on June 17, 2016 in Washington, D.C. It included representatives from a number of psychiatric and mental-health related…
2017.01.13
care-coordination-optimizationarticleperspective
Integrated care is an important component of delivering high-quality health care, especially for people with mental health disorders. "People with mental and substance abuse disorders…
2018.02.21
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
Last week, my colleague, Sarah Threnhauser, MPA, wrote about the issue of loneliness as a social determinant of health—citing recent research findings and the very…
2016.01.14
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On December 18, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a draft proposal for developing quality measures for Medicare Merit-based Incentive Payment…
2017.01.06
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
This is a fact based overview of customer-oriented continuous quality improvement (CQI) for Behavioral Health (BH) organizations. Purpose CQI has been increasingly recommended as a…
2017.05.17
quality-standards-performance-measuresvideopresentation
In this presentation, Jessie Chambers, PhD, Medical Science Liaison on the Field Medical Affairs team for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., was joined by…
2017.10.23
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The Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) includes 19 question items (English Version), based upon questions that developer Ronald Pies, MD, found most helpful in detecting…
2017.10.16
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The Opioid Risk Tool© (ORT) is a five-question, self-administered assessment that can be completed within 5 minutes and should be utilized on a patient's initial…
2017.10.16
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The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) is a brief alcohol screen that reliably identifies patients who are hazardous drinkers or who have active alcohol…
2017.10.16
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Mini-Cog™
Psychiatric Scale | October 16, 2017
The Mini-Cog™ is a 3-minute instrument that can increase detection of cognitive impairment in older adults. It can be used effectively after brief training in…
2015.09.24
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The CNS-LS is a short (seven-item), self-administered questionnaire, designed to be completed by the patient, that provides a quantitative measure of the perceived frequency of…
2015.10.07
schizophreniadownloadable-resourcepsychiatric-scale
The Brief Adherence Ratings Scale (BARS) is a brief, clinician-administered instrument that was designed to assess adherence to oral atypical antipsychotic medication among outpatients with…
2015.04.23
schizophreniaarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Byerly MJ, Nakonezny PA, Rush AJ. The Brief Adherence Rating Scale (BARS) validated against electronic monitoring in assessing the…
2015.06.10
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
Measurement fatigue. That’s the phrase used in "Getting More Performance from Performance Measurement," a recent article in The New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) to…
2015.04.27
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
A few days ago, OPEN MINDS CEO Monica E. Oss covered the growing challenge managers in health and human service provider organizations face in keeping…
2017.05.15
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
With the move to value-based reimbursement, there is a lot more focus on exactly how we’re measuring performance. There are a few constant themes. First,…
2018.03.16
payer-financing-models quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash…
2016.02.29
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Glied SA, Stein BD, McGuire TG, Beale RR, Duffy FF, Shugarman S, Goldman HH. Measuring performance in psychiatry: A…
2018.05.23
payer-financing-models quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
“Episodes of care” are an increasingly common form of value-based reimbursement. The most widely known episode of care or bundled payment model is the Centers…
2018.02.21
payer-financing-models quality-standards-performance-measuresarticlenews
On January 9, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced) model for…
2014.10.23
payer-financing-modelsarticlenews
As payers transition from fee-for-service reimbursements to value-based purchasing, Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) (and ACO-like models adopted by state Medicaid programs, private insurers, and…
2014.12.10
articlenews
On September 16, 2014, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that quality outcomes for Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) had…
2017.03.14
payer-financing-modelsarticleperspective
In the face of big policy unknowns in health and human service, it appears that one practice is likely to remain with us – reimbursing…
2017.05.15
payer-financing-modelsarticlenews
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seems to be “all in” on alternate payment models (APMs). In total, more than 12.3 million…
2017.11.21
e-health-technology quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
Sustainability requires improved organizational performance and improved value to our customer. But shifting organizational culture to one that is data driven and can use metrics-based…
2017.09.26
e-health-technologyarticleperspective
Health and human service organizations are spending a tremendous amount building the infrastructure to gather more and better consumer health data – and to do…
2018.03.08
quality-standards-performance-measures substance-abusearticleperspective
What became clear last week during the many discussions at a recent institute is that there is no agreement on “the” performance measurement set for…
2014.12.22
articleperspective
One of the big strategic changes to the field due to technology is analytics – that promise of better, faster decisionmaking. The assumption is that…
2017.05.31
quality-standards-performance-measuresvideopresentation
During this recorded presentation, Samantha Sweeney, PharmD, MBA, provided a brief overview of the importance of quality in behavioral health care. Key points included: Understanding…
2018.05.04
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
Last month, I had a chance to touch base with Debbie Cagle-Wells, Chief Marketing Officer at Centerstone about their value- based health plan partnerships (see…
2018.04.25
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticlenews
Behavioral health home consumer activation is more rapid in provider-supported care model which includes nurse support of consumers and other staff than in consumer self-directed…
2018.01.10
care-coordination-optimization e-health-technologyarticleperspective
Recently, at a 2017 Technology Institute, there was lots of talk about the necessary tech investments that provider organizations need to make on their path…
2017.10.16
care-coordination-optimization quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleperspective
If your organization has consumers who are engaged in their health care, chances are, you have an edge over your competitors – because your consumers…
2017.05.08
care-coordination-optimizationarticleperspective
Engaged consumers have better outcomes and cost less money. This is a mantra in health and human services with good reason. By definition, engaged consumers…
2017.11.27
major-depressive-disorderarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Predicting Relapse with Individual Residual Symptoms in Major Depressive Disorder: A Re-analysis of the STAR*D Data. Sakurai H, Suzuki…
2017.08.29
major-depressive-disorderarticleresearch-summary
The following is a summary of Dennehy EB, Robinson RL, Stephenson JJ, et al. Impact of non-remission of depression on costs and resource utilization: from…
2017.06.27
major-depressive-disordervideocommunity-voices
In this discussion, Sloan Manning, MD covers the STAR*D trials, the study's outcomes, and what those outcomes mean for the treatment of major depressive disorder.…
2018.05.23
e-health-technologyarticleperspective
I’m always a fan of new treatment technologies. Each new treatment technology (whether a new medication, new clinical practice, new device, new app) represents more…
2017.09.28
e-health-technologyarticlenews
Non-invasive, high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) reduces the severity of auditory verbal hallucinations, based on a 30% reduction in scores on the Auditory Hallucinations…
2015.10.08
e-health-technology major-depressive-disorderarticleperspective
Using A New Technology To Enhance Treatment Of MDD Major depressive disorder (MDD) is categorized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global disease…
2018.06.01
quality-standards-performance-measuresarticleresearch-summary
Recent health reforms such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA / PPACA) and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), along with…
2017.10.16
e-health-technologyarticlenews
On September 5, 2017, the National Quality Forum (NQF) recommended that the health care industry focus on four areas of impact to measure the quality…
2015.03.24
articleperspective
The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit member organization that promotes improvements in health care. Its members work to build consensus on recommending quality…
