Benchmarking therapists: Furthering the benchmarking method in its application to clinical practice

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1699-1708

  Minami, Takuya ^a   Brown, G S ^b   McCulloch, Joyce ^c   Bolstrom, Brent J ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Clinical Informatics   (United States)

^c United Behavioral Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Bench marking; Clinical practice; Effectiveness; Psychotherapy; Therapist effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866449575     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-011-9548-4     Document Type: Article

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