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Below are links to papers discussing effective quality improvement processes within behavioral healthcare.
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“The Bell Curve” by Atul Gawande The New Yorker, December 6, 2004
“Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series”, The IOM Report.
"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
"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
When Less Is More: Reducing the Incidence of Antipsychotic Poly-Pharmacy by William Tucker, MD, an IHI.org Story.
"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. A pdf file: 1,094 KBytes
"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
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