Quality improvement in mental health services

Quality in Delivery of Mental Health Services

Quality and quality improvement in forensic mental health evaluations.

Despite the growing attention to quality and quality improvement in health care in the United States, forensic psychiatry has yet to incorporate relevant developments and information and make quality an important item on the agenda. This article reviews the empirical research regarding the perceived quality of forensic evaluations, which has primarily examined criminal rather than civil forensi...

Quality of life and mental health services.

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An agenda for quality improvement in forensic mental health consultation.

Recent developments in quality assurance in health care have embraced the total quality management approach to industrial quality control. Setting a goal of "continuous quality improvement" for medical care, this approach features special attention to the process and systems of care provision. Applying this approach to the specialty of forensic mental health consultation yields a variety of pot...

Evaluation and quality improvement in mental health service delivery

The provision of mental health care throughout the world is both extremely complex and there exists a diverse set of systems of delivering clinical care. Despite advances in diagnosis and technology, most systems are plagued by limited resources and inefficiencies. From 1992 to 2002, for example, expenditure for serious mental disorders increased from $63 billion to $100 billion (Insel, 2008). ...