Measuring the quality of care for psychological health conditions in the military health system : candidate quality measures for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder / Kimberly A. Hepner [et al.]

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Hepner, Kimberly A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--Mental health services--United States--Evaluation.

Soldiers.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--United States.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment--Evaluation.

Depression, Mental--United States.

Depression, Mental.

Depression, Mental--Treatment--Evaluation.

United States--Armed Forces--Medical care--Evaluation.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2015

Santa Monica, Ca : RAND Corporation, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To inform improvements to the quality of care delivered by the military health system for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder, researchers developed a framework and identified, developed, and described a candidate set of measures for monitoring, assessing, and improving the quality of care. This document describes their research approach and the measure sets that they identified.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures and Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: Introduction; Defining and Measuring Quality of Care; How Quality Measures Are Used; Quality Improvement; Accountability; Research; Examples of Improved Performance over Time; Overview of Our Process for Quality Measure Development; Organization of the Report; Chapter Two: Framework for Classifying Measures of Psychological Health Conditions; Dimensions for the Framework; Care Continuum; Measure Type; Matrix Framework for Classifying Psychological Health Measures

Chapter Three: Identification of Measures of Quality of Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive DisorderMeasure Selection by Expert Consensus; Chapter Four: Overview of Candidate Sets of Measures of Care Quality for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder; Description of Candidate Measures, by Care Continuum Phase; Description of Candidate Measures, by Measure Type; Description of Candidate Measures Using the Matrix Framework; Examination of Need for New Measures; Prevention; Reintegration; Structure Measures; Chapter Five: Summary and Recommendations

Study LimitationsRecommendations; Appendixes; A. Definitions of Terms Used to Describe Quality Measures; B. Descriptions of Measures of Quality of Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; C. Descriptions of Measures of Quality of Care for Major Depressive Disorder; D. Additional Rationale for Cost Measure; E. Candidate Set of Measures of Quality of Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; F. Candidate Set of Measures of Quality of Care for Major Depressive Disorder; G. Sources of Measures; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8330-8659-6

OCLC:

907391699