Titlebook: Handbook of Quality Management in Behavioral Health; George Stricker,Warwick G. Troy,Sharon A. Shueman Book 2000 Springer Science+Business

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Challenges to the Preservation of Quality in Cost-Contained Behavioral Health Systemstic, sometimes seemingly draconian, measures to bring health care costs under control. As a result of these interventions by payers, many clinical changes have swept through medicine (including behavioral health services), catalyzed by a reorganization of the financial and administrative underpinnin

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Protecting the Consumer on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Quality assurance has been housed in semi-obscure offices within hospitals and clinics given the task of making sure their particular organization complies with various regulations. More recently, as managed health care has grown, there has been

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Quality Improvementresearch is central to quality improvement because the scientific study of patient change tempers the undocumented and often overstated consequences of psychological and medical practitioners. We attempt here a brief summary of research on psychosocial interventions and its implications for quality

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Provider Profiling as a Quality Improvement Tooluse the word value, rather than quality, to emphasize that “value” includes economic factors as well as the more traditionally defined “quality.” Admittedly, there are important discussions that must occur at a societal level concerning the appropriate weighting of quality and cost in health care de

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Critical Indicators of Quality of a Service Systemally, it targets professionals who have only minimal exposure to the quality management principles and practices familiar to those who have worked in organized care settings such as community mental health centers, specialized treatment programs, and hospitals. The chapter begins with a discussion o

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Challenges to Quality Management in the Public Sector holding contracts with over 400 large and mid-sized employers, covering an estimated 6 million lives. Public sector contracts include King County and Clark County, both in Washington, and Solano County, California.

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Quality Management Practice Issues in Behavioral Health Groupsonsider the approaches to “quality.” As concepts such as total quality management and continuous quality improvement are increasingly applied to health care delivery (see .), traditional definitions of quality are being challenged and the term is acquiring new and sometimes widely varying meanings.