Cross-national reliability of clinician-rated outcome measures in child and adolescent mental health services

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 513-518

  Hanssen Bauer, Ketil ^a   Gowers, Simon ^b   Aalen, Odd O ^c   Bilenberg, Niels ^d   Brann, Peter ^e,h   Garralda, Elena ^f   Merry, Sally ^g   Heyerdahl, Sonja ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e EASTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Children; Mental health Services; Outcome; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NORWAY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 35748965586     PISSN: 0894587X     EISSN: 15733289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10488-007-0135-x     Document Type: Article

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