BACKGROUND there is a need for outcome measurement in Psychiatry. METHOD a literature Review was carried out. RESULTS a number of different methods for outcome measurement were identified; their depended on the aims of the outcome measurements, hence functional outcomes of services could be measured,including mumbers of patients returned to employment or education. Some tools could measure ...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that children enrolled in Medicaid managed care health plans that provide asthma-specific communication to providers would be more likely to have adequate asthma medication filling. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a historical cohort study of 4498 children (2-17 years old) with moderate-severe asthma in Washington State and Tennessee Medicaid managed care programs f...

Overview We call for a national effort to develop a parsimonious set of quality and outcome measures for children. The target users are health care organizations that are accountable for large pediatric populations. These organizations need an efficient set of measures that will direct them toward meaningful health improvement efforts and that capture the health care needs of their communities....

BACKGROUND Although there is much room for improvement in the performance of recommended preventive manoeuvres, many inappropriate preventive interventions are being done. We evaluated a multifaceted intervention, delivered by nurses trained in prevention facilitation, to improve prevention in primary care. METHODS Forty-six health service organizations (HSOs) were recruited from 100 sites in...

OBJECTIVES This paper aimed to systematically evaluate the mental health and well-being outcomes observed in previous community-based obesity prevention interventions in adolescent populations. SETTING Systematic review of literature from database inception to October 2014. Articles were sourced from CINAHL, Global Health, Health Source: Nursing and Academic Edition, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES and...

Measuring health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is important for tracking the health of individuals and populations over time. Generic HRQoL measures allow for comparison across health conditions. One form of generic HRQoL measures are profile measures, which provide a description of health across several different domains (such as physical functioning, depression, and pain). Recent...

Computational models of learning and the theories they represent are often validated by calibrating them to human data on decision outcomes. However, only a few models explain the process by which these decision outcomes are reached. We argue that models of learning should be able to reflect the process through which the decision outcomes are reached, and validating a model on the process is li...