title: Making the grade: update on report card initiatives for 1997.
abstract: Report cards for healthcare services are increasingly in the news, offering the hope that objective information on the quality of health plan and providers services will eventually enable purchasers and consumers to make selections based on true value. Following is a series of five brief articles that review ongoing report card initiatives in private and public sectors of the behavioral healthcare system. The first four articles review actual report cards designed to hold organizations--particularly managed care--accountable for the quality of their services. The last article reviews research on performance measurement across all segments of the behavioral healthcare industry.
authors.affiliation: Magellan Health Services, Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bartlett
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kaufmann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Manderscheid
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Daniels
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: O'Kane
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States