title: Quality of care measures for the treatment of bipolar disorder.
abstract: The staff of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), and a national panel of experts in bipolar disorder and practice guideline development have collaborated to generate a set of quality of care indicators for the pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment of bipolar disorder. The indicators were derived from APA's evidence-based Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder, 2002 (1) and the Expert Consensus Guideline Series: Medication Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, 2000 (2) These quality indicators can be used for quality monitoring, benchmarking, and quality improvement efforts across health plans, systems of care, and health care providers to improve quality and outcomes of care for patients with bipolar disorder.
authors.affiliation: American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, 1000 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1825, Arlington, Virginia 22209, USA. fduffy@psych.org
authors.forename: Farifteh Firoozmand
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Duffy
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Narrow
authors.forename: Joyce C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: Laura J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Fochtmann
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kahn
authors.forename: Trisha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suppes
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Oldham
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: McIntyre
authors.forename: Ronald W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Manderscheid
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sirovatka
authors.forename: Darrel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Regier
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States