Quality Indicators: Defining and Measuring Qual, Association+-

Quality IndicatorsDefining and Measuring Quality in Psychiatric Care for Adults and Children (Report of the APA Task Force on Quality Indicators)\nAuthor(s): American Psychiatric Association\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, United States\nImprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing\nISBN-13: 9780890422915, 978-0890422915\nSynopsis\nThe past decade has witnessed remarkable growth in the field of quality measurement in health care. Today's patients want to know that the care they receive is safe, effective, and accessible.\n\nThis compelling monograph combines - for the first time - the reports from two American Psychiatric Association task forces on quality in psychiatric care (March 1999, which focused on adults, and October 2001, which focused on children and adolescents), offering a clinical framework for quality measurement that provides sample indicators of quality for health plans, facilities, and systems of care.\n\nUsing.