title: What can we learn from the ongoing challenge to implement routine outcome measures?
abstract: Routine outcomes measurement is important for clinical care, quality improvement, and performance management. The nine papers in this special volume describe national and regional efforts at implementation of outcomes measures in nine different countries. They describe successes and challenges. This special collection of papers makes an important contribution towards improving the implementation of routine outcomes measurement globally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland , Baltimore, Maryland , USA . E-mail: hh.goldman@verizon.net.
authors.forename: Howard H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Seybolt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards