The impact of routine outcome measurement on treatment processes in community mental health care: Approach and methods of the MECCA study

Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 198-205

  Priebe, Stefan ^a   McCabe, Rosemarie ^a   Bullenkamp, Jens ^a   Hansson, Lars ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a   Torres Gonzales, Francisco ^a   Wiersma, Durk ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community mental health care; Outcome management; QOL; RCT; Therapeutic relationships

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HOSPITAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SATISFACTION;

EID: 0036661418     PISSN: 1121189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1121189X00005728     Document Type: Article

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