Benchmarking the cost efficiency of community care in Australian child and adolescent mental health services: Implications for future benchmarking

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-231

  Furber, Gareth ^a,b   Brann, Peter ^c,d   Skene, Clive ^b   Allison, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Eastern Health CAMHS ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

benchmarking; CAMHS; costs; HoNOSCA

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH OF THE NATIONS OUTCOME SCALE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79959386492     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10398562.2011.578641     Document Type: Article

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