title: Quality as the driving force for cost-effective psychiatric managed care.
abstract: The mental health profession is plagued by the perception that it is a vague, ambiguous, and sometimes ineffective field. A confluence of worldwide megatrends is affecting the mental health and substance abuse delivery system. Two different methods of providing psychiatric clinical care are addressed.
authors.affiliation: MERIT Behavioral Care Systems, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004496:Education, Continuing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology