ReviewBJPsych bulletin2017
Improving the quality of mental health services using patient outcome data: making the most of HoNOS.
Review in BJPsych bulletin, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Individual Socioeconomic Measures and Change in HoNOS Scores among Persons Attending Adult Community Mental Health Services.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Risk of bias in routine mental health outcome data: the case of Health of the Nation Outcome Scales.BMJ mental health · 2025Article
- Assessing the Content Validity of the Revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS 2018).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Exploration of psychometric properties of the Italian version of theResearch in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2021Article
- Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia: A Study in a Large Clinical Sample Using Natural Language Processing.Frontiers in digital health · 2021Article
- The development of an outcome measure for liaison mental health services.BJPsych bulletin · 2018Article
- Desperately seeking outcomes: quantifying the effectiveness of community mental healthcare using Health of the Nation Outcome Scales.BJPsych open · 2018Article
- Measurement properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures: protocol for a systematic review.BMJ open · 2018Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
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Abstract
Efforts to assess and improve the quality of mental health services are often hampered by a lack of information on patient outcomes. Most mental health services in England have been routinely collecting Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) data for some time. In this article we illustrate how clinical teams have used HoNOS data to identify areas where performance could be improved. HoNOS data have the potential to give clinical teams the information they need to assess the quality of care they deliver, as well as develop and test initiatives aimed at improving the services they provide.
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