Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE) - The CORE Measures and System: Measuring, Monitoring and Managing Quality Evaluation in the Psychological Therapies

Developing and Delivering Practice-Based Evidence: A Guide for the Psychological Therapies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 175-219

  Barkham, Michael ^a   Mellor Clark, John ^b   Connell, Janice ^a   Evans, Chris ^c   Evans, Richard ^d   Margison, Frank ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CORE Information Management Systems ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d The CORE System Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e GREATER MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE); CORE measures and system; CORE measures and system evaluation in psychological therapies; Measuring, monitoring and managing quality evaluation; Psychological therapies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886851252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470687994.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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