Response to Rosenheck and Cicchetti's "A Mental Health Program Report Card: A Multidimensional Approach to Performance Monitoring in Public Sector Programs"

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Abstract

The foregoing article by Rosenheck and Cicchetti describing the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) report card is a valuable contribution to the emerging literature on the large-scale monitoring of mental health services. In an era of increasing preoccupation with quantification of activity and results, the authors have devised a method for using existing administrative data to highlight and compare key aspects of organizational performance across a large service system. These brief comments fall into three categories: strengths of the model; limitations of and alternatives to exclusive use of existing data; and generalizability of the approach.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalCommunity Mental Health Journal
Volume34
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1998

Keywords

  • Public Health
  • Mental Health
  • Public Sector
  • Health Psychology
  • Health Program

Disciplines

  • Health Law and Policy
  • Law
  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Mental and Social Health
  • Psychiatric and Mental Health

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