Promoting quality mental health care delivery with critical path care plans.
1. Mental Health providers are under increasing pressure to provide objective, individualized care that produces outcomes that may be measured against accepted clinical standards. 2. Clinicians may now track patient responses throughout a continuum of treatment in varying locations by using a customized critical path/treatment plan format. 3. Care delivery is documented by superimposing actual occurrences over desired ones on a critical pathway.
Dunn
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Mental Health Network, Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Rodriguez
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Novak
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D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*