title: Accountability of specialist child and adolescent mental health services.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Elena M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Garralda
mesh_terms: 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*