AIMS AND METHOD Modern mental healthcare providers must demonstrate service-level clinical effectiveness to key stakeholders.We introduced two performance indicators of clinical effectiveness based on outcome data from routinely collected Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and HoNOS-secure assessments across St Andrew’s Healthcare, a charity providing in-patient services in Northampton...

medical settings with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ): a diagnostic meta-analysis. 25 Smith EV. Detecting and evaluation the impact of multidimensionality using item fit statistics and principal component analysis of residuals. Unlike many fields in medicine, most clinical outcomes in psychiatry are not directly observable and cannot be captured with diagnostic tests such as blood work o...

Two simple methods of assessing visual outcome following cataract surgery were evaluated in India. The first used data obtained from standardized patient records of cataract surgery. The second used data from population-based rapid epidemiological assessments. Analysis of 4168 hospital and eye camp records showed that, with the available standard correction, a good outcome (visual acuity > or =...

Two simple methods of assessing visual outcome following cataract surgery were evaluated in India. The first used data obtained from standardized patient records of cataract surgery. The second used data from population-based rapid epidemiological assessments. Analysis of 4168 hospital and eye camp records showed that, with the available standard correction, a good outcome (visual acuity 56/18)...