title: Combining routine outcomes measurement and 'Payment by Results': will it work and is it worth it?
abstract: The Department of Health in England has long encouraged the routine measurement of clinical outcomes in mental health services but has now decided to use outcome measures as part of a new payments system - Payment by Results. We examine how these two policies should or might interact.
authors: PO 26, HSPR Department, David Goldberg Building, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AP, UK. alistair.macdonald@kcl.ac.uk
authors: Alastair J D
authors: AJ
authors: Macdonald
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Elphick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012052:Reimbursement, Incentive / Q000191:economics*