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ArticleAdministration and policy in mental health2021

What Gets Measured Gets Done: How Mental Health Agencies can Leverage Measurement-Based Care for Better Patient Care, Clinician Supports, and Organizational Goals.

Elizabeth H Connors, Susan Douglas, Amanda Jensen-Doss, Sara J Landes, Cara C Lewis, Bryce D McLeod, Cameo Stanick, Aaron R Lyon

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Article in Administration and policy in mental health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06515236 (Strategic Treatment Assessment With Youth), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06515236 naenrolling by invitationnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Strategic Treatment Assessment With Youth (STAY): A Measurement-based Care Approach to Promote Treatment Retention Among Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Youth With Depression or Suicide Risk

TypeinterventionalSponsorYale UniversityRan2025 to 2026Enrolled140ConditionsDepression in Adolescence, Suicide PreventionArmsStrategic Treatment Assessment for Youth (STAY), Measurement Based Care As Usual
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Measurement-based care: opportunities to improve global mental health care.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025
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  9. Using Progress Feedback to Enhance Treatment Outcomes: A Narrative Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025
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  16. A Content Analysis of Self-report Child Anxiety Measures.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Elizabeth H ConnorsDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University, 389 Whitney Avenue, Office 106, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA. elizabeth.connors@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4343-4311
Susan DouglasDepartment of Leadership, Policy and Organizations, Vanderbilt University, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
Amanda Jensen-DossDepartment of Psychology, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA.
Sara J LandesVISN 16 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, 2200 Fort Roots Drive, North Little Rock, AR, 72114, USA.
Cara C LewisKaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA, 98101-1466, USA.
Bryce D McLeodDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 806 W. Franklin Street, PO Box 842018, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA.
Cameo StanickClinical Practice, Training, and Research and Evaluation, Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services, 100 W. Walnut Street, Ste #375, Pasadena, CA, 91124, USA.
Aaron R LyonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, School of Medicine, 6200 NE 74th Street, Suite 100, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA.

Funding

Selecting and Testing Implementation Strategies to Advance Measurement-based Care in School Mental HealthK08MH116119 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CONNORS, ELIZABETH HALSTED · 2019 to 2023
$693k
NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH116119
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental health clinicians and administrators are increasingly asked to collect and report treatment outcome data despite numerous challenges to select and use instruments in routine practice. Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based practice for improving patient care. We propose that data collected from MBC processes with patients can be strategically leveraged by agencies to also support clinicians and respond to accountability requirements. MBC data elements are outlined using the Precision Mental Health Framework (Bickman et al. in Adm Policy Mental Health Mental Health Serv Res 43:271-276, 2016), practical guidance is provided for agency administrators, and conceptual examples illustrate strategic applications of one or more instruments to meet various needs throughout the organization.

Indexed as

Mental HealthMental Health ServicesHumansOrganizational ObjectivesPatient CareMeasurement-based careOrganizational quality improvementProgress monitoring

Identifiers

PMID32656631
PMCPMC7854781

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