Accountability of specialist child and adolescent mental health services.
Outcome auditing of specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is now well under way internationally. There is, however, debate about objectives and tools. A case is made for the achievable goal of enhancing service accountability through user satisfaction information and clinician-rated contextualised measures of improvements in symptoms and impairment.
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Elena M
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D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000592:standards; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*