Combining routine outcomes measurement and 'Payment by Results': Will it work and is it worth it?

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 178-179

  Macdonald, Alastair J D ^a   Elphick, Martin ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL FEE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE;

EID: 80052402181     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.090993     Document Type: Review

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