Between patient and doctor. Improving the quality of care for serious mental illness.
The quality of care typically rendered to seriously mentally ill patients in this country does not reflect the extraordinary expansion and refinement in recent decades of scientifically based psychiatric diagnostic and therapeutic capacities. In this paper, the authors examine reasons for the disparity between the quality of the scientific base and the quality of care, citing recent historical influences and contemporary obstacles, and then propose strategies for change.
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D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States