Reference Library

Below are links to papers discussing effective quality improvement processes within behavioral healthcare.

"An Analysis of Therapist Treatment Effects: Toward Providing Feedback to Individual Therapists on Their Clients’ Psychotherapy Outcome" by John Okiishi, Michael J. Lambert, Dennis Eggett, Lars Nielsen, and David D. Dayton, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 62(9), 1157–1172 (2006). A pdf file: 203 KBytes

"Behavioral Health Issues Within Immigrant Populations" by Peter C. Brown. A pdf file: 18 KBytes

"The Bell Curve" by Atul Gawande The New Yorker, December 6, 2004

"The Cost Conundrum" by Atul Gawande The New Yorker, June 1, 2009

"Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series", The IOM Report.

"INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SUMMARY REPORT: 90-DAY PROJECT". October, 2008, By Lindsay Martin, IHI, and Peter Brown, Institute for Behavioral Healthcare Improvement (IBHI). A pdf file: 46 KBytes

"Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness". National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Medical Directors Council, July 2006. A pdf file: 1.7 MBytes

"Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness" National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, (NASMHPD) Medical Directors Council. July 2006. An on-line PowerPoint presentation

"Morbidity and Mortality in People with Serious Mental Illness" Editors: Joe Parks, MD; Dale Svendsen, MD; Patricia Singer, MD; Mary Ellen Foti, MD. Technical Writer: Barbara Mauer, MSW, CMC. National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, (NASMHPD) Medical Directors Council. October 2006.

"Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health: Using Collaboratives and Improving Behavioral Health Care in Emergency Rooms" by Steve Miccio, Director, PEOPLe Inc.; and Peter Brown, Executive Director, IBHI . NYAPRS Conference Sept. 25, 2008. A pdf file: 251 KBytes

"Summary of the Triple Aim Symposium" by Peter C. Brown, July 2, 2008. A pdf file: 45 KBytes

"Waiting for Supershrink: An Empirical Analysis of Therapist Effects" by John Okiishi, Michael J. Lambert, Stevan L. Nielsen, and Benjamin M. Ogles, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 10, 361-373 (2003). A pdf file: 1,060 KBytes

"When Less Is More: Reducing the Incidence of Antipsychotic Poly-Pharmacy" by William Tucker, MD, an IHI.org Story. A pdf file: 1,094 KBytes