The past several decades of price wars in medicine have taken their toll - and nowhere has the impact been greater than in the field of psychiatry. Today, patients and physicians alike are protesting - louder than ever - that
quality patient care is being
sacrificed to cost-cutting goals. What is quality patient care? Quality measures (i.e., validity, reliability, feasibility, usability, and
comparability) link the care rendered to the results (i.e., outcomes) of that care, enabling us to define, measure, publicly report, compare, and ultimately improve care. This remarkable volume offers a critical analysis of outcome assessment, in psychiatry, which allows us to assess not only the…
