title: Population-based guidelines for performance measurement: a preliminary report.
abstract: This paper describes the development of--and early efforts to validate--guidelines that indicate average amounts of service expected to be used by a population of patients with a given disorder who are served by a comprehensive mental health system. These guidelines address expected service use by individuals in 55 diagnostic groups. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide a gauge for evaluating the amounts of service being delivered by managed care organizations. Three population-based guidelines (for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia) are compared to actual amounts of service delivered to enrollees in large behavioral health care systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201-3098, USA.
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: McFarland
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Pollack
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McCulloch
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Penner
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Angell
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population