@article{f6066540186b4537b8af15b65b7f0da4,
title = "Quality of care measures for the treatment of bipolar disorder",
abstract = "The staff of the American Psychiatric Assocition (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.",
keywords = "Bipolar disorder, Performance measures, Psychiatric disorders, Quality indicators, Quality of care",
author = "Duffy, {Farifteh Firoozmand} and William Narrow and West, {Joyce C.} and Fochtmann, {Laura J.} and Kahn, {David A.} and Trisha Suppes and Oldham, {John M.} and McIntyre, {John S.} and Manderscheid, {Ronald W.} and Paul Sirovatka and Darrel Regier",
note = "Funding Information: The development of the evidence-based and expert-consensus-based practice guideline quality indicators were supported by a contract from the Center for Mental Health Services (Ronald W. Manderscheid, Ph.D., Project Officer). Funding Information: Some of the greatest challenges in the implementation of quality indicators relate to their dissemination, acceptability, and adoption by various stakeholders. Numerous payors and quality oversight organizations have included “process” and “outcome” performance measures as a part of their health plan performance measurement, quality monitoring activities, and accreditation programs (23). Included among these organizations are the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS; www.ncqa. org); the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Organization{\textquoteright}s (JCAHO) ORYX initiative (www.jcaho.org); the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC; www.urac.org); the American Medical Association{\textquoteright}s Accreditation Program (AMAP) and its more recent initiative, the Physicians Consortium on Performance Measurement (www.ama-assn.org); the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT; www.facct.org); the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ; www.ahrq.gov); and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Quality Improvement System for Managed Care (QISMC; http://cms.hhs.gov) (23). Many of these performance measurement efforts are redundant, include a limited number of measures that are appropriate for mental health, and pose considerable financial and staffing burdens on health plans (23). Noteworthy initiatives for performance measurement in mental health include: 1) the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program of the Center for Mental Health Services (24); 2) The American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association (AMBHA) Performance Measures for Managed Behavioral Healthcare Programs (PERMS, www.ambha.org/index. htm); 3) the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Framework of Mental Health Performance Indicators and the CMHS funded 16-State Indicator Pilot Grant Project (25); 4) the Reports of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Quality Indicators and Task Force on Quality Indicators for Children (21); and 5) the Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement National Inventory of Mental Health Quality Measures (www.cqaimh.org).",
year = "2005",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1007/s11126-005-2975-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "76",
pages = "213--230",
journal = "Psychiatric Quarterly",
issn = "0033-2720",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc.",
number = "3",
}