title: A methodology for preparing 'ideal' treatment outlines in psychiatry. The Quality Assurance Project.
abstract: The methodology of preparing treatment process criteria for agoraphobia and the depressive disorders is described. To avoid bias three sources of information were used: the results of a meta-analysis of the treatment outcome literature, the views of a sample of practising psychiatrists, and the views of a small representative expert committee. When criteria for schizophrenia and the neuroses have been completed the quality assurance project should serve two main purposes: first as an aid to continuing and postgraduate education and second as a basis for clinical review criteria required by peer review and other quality assurance activities.
mesh_terms: D000379:Agoraphobia / Q000628:therapy*; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents