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Handbook of Quality Assurance in Mental Health

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. George Stricker

    1. Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

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  2. Alex R. Rodriguez

    1. Preferred Health Care, Ltd., Wilton, USA

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Mental Health

      • Alex R. Rodriguez
      Pages 3-36

  3. General Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Historical Trends in Quality Assurance for Mental Health Services

      • Kenneth B. Wells, Robert H. Brook
      Pages 39-63

    3. Research on Mental Health Quality Assurance

      • Lawrence H. Cohen
      Pages 65-79

    4. Evaluating Peer Review

      • Lee Sechrest, Abram Rosenblatt
      Pages 81-101

    5. Education for Quality Assurance

      • Russell J. Bent
      Pages 103-136

    6. The Effects of Contemporary Economic Conditions on Availability and Quality of Mental Health Services

      • Alex R. Rodriguez
      Pages 137-167

    7. The Role of the Consumer in Quality Assurance

      • Agnes B. Hatfield, H. Bernard Smith
      Pages 169-183

    8. Alternative Futures for Assuring the Quality of Mental Health Services

      • Peter G. Goldschmidt
      Pages 185-205

    9. Therapeutic Issues and Quality Assurance Efforts

      • Milton Theaman
      Pages 207-217

  4. Level of Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. Quality Assurance in Acute Inpatient Services

      • Jack A. Wolford
      Pages 221-245

    3. The Influence of External Forces on the Quality Assurance Process

      • Robert W. Gibson
      Pages 247-264

    4. Quality Assurance in Outpatient Psychotherapy

      • Sharon A. Shueman, Warwick G. Troy
      Pages 265-282

  5. Administrative Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
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    2. The Role of the Federal Government in Peer Review

      • Patrick H. Deleon, Joan G. Willens, J. Jarrett Clinton, Gary R. Vandenbos
      Pages 285-309

    3. Legal Considerations in Quality Assurance

      • Donald N. Bersoff, Kit Kinports
      Pages 311-329

    4. The Role of the State

      • Judy E. Hall
      Pages 331-362
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professional-standards-review organizations (PSRO) in defining quality of care for the Medicare program; it is a "shared responsibility of health professionals and government to provide a reasonable basis for confidence that action will be taken, both to assess whether services meet professionally recognized standards and to correct any deficiencies that may be found" (p. 14). Similar pronouncements have been made for the quality assurance activities of the Department of Defense's CHAMPUS program and of the 1980s successor to the PSROs, the federally designated peer-review organizations (PROs), established to ensure quality and utilization-efficient care for Medicare. Links between the federal and state gov­ ernments and between professional associations and private review entities have been developed to make this "shared responsibility" manifest in the delivery and reimbursement of health services. This responsibility is seen in light of both pro­ fessional and legal accountability, a view noted by Gibson and Singhas (1978) and Alger (1980). Accountability, then, becomes a concentric concept that elaborates on the pure view of quality and reflects the federal government's consumer protection activities during the 1970s. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH), which has pro­ vided another primary historical leadership role in defining quality assurance, has promoted the evolution of the concept of resource limitations as a part of the defini­ tion of quality assurance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

    George Stricker

  • Preferred Health Care, Ltd., Wilton, USA

    Alex R. Rodriguez

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Quality Assurance in Mental Health

  • Editors: George Stricker, Alex R. Rodriguez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5236-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5238-9Published: 01 September 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5236-5Published: 09 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 509

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Psychology, Social Sciences, general, Insurance

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