Designing and implementing outcome evaluations: Some guidelines for practitioners

Psychotherapy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 237-245

  Dornelas, Ellen A ^a   Correll, Robert E ^a   Lothstein, Leslie ^a   Wilder, Charles ^a   Goethe, John W ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029903338     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-3204.33.2.237     Document Type: Review

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