The evaluation of a children's mental health managed care demonstration.
This article introduces the Fort Bragg managed care experiment. This study was a 5-year, $80 million effort to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a full continuum of mental health services for children and adolescents. The article describes the development of the Demonstration, the program theory underlying intervention, and how this theory was tested.
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Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006077:Government Agencies; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008887:Military Medicine; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009657:North Carolina; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation