ArticlePsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2022
Standardized Versus Tailored Implementation of Measurement-Based Care for Depression in Community Mental Health Clinics.
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- Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of a leadership-focused implementation strategy on uptake of digital measurement-based care in mental health clinics: a cluster randomized trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2026Trial
- Effects of an Organizational Implementation Strategy on Sustainment of Measurement-Based Care in Community Mental Health.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Trial
- Randomized Trial of an Organizational Implementation Strategy to Improve Measurement-Based Care Fidelity and Youth Outcomes in Community Mental Health.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Mediators of measurement-based care implementation in community mental health settings: results from a mixed-methods evaluation.Implementation science : IS · 2022Trial
- Barriers to and facilitators of measurement-based care in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment: A systematic review.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2026Review
- Personalized and collaborative use of digital measurement-based care tools enhances engagement among young adults: a mixed-methods study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Provider Use of, Attitudes Towards, and Self-efficacy with Key Measurement-based Care Practices in Youth Mental Health Treatment: A Multi-site Examination.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- The impact of measurement based care at scale: examining the effects of implementation on patient outcomes and provider behaviors.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Study protocol: Novel Methods for Implementing Measurement-Based Care with youth in Low-Resource Environments (NIMBLE).Implementation science communications · 2023Article
- The results of clinician-focused implementation strategies on uptake and outcomes of Measurement-Based Care (MBC) in general mental health care.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Measurement feedback system implementation in public youth mental health treatment services: a mixed methods analysis.Implementation science communications · 2022Article
- Measurement-based care implementation by K-12 public school clinicians: A mixed-methods proof of concept study.Implementation research and practiceArticle
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Objective: Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based practice that is rarely integrated into psychotherapy. The authors sought to determine whether tailored MBC implementation can improve clinician fidelity and depression outcomes compared with standardized implementation. Methods: This cluster-randomized trial enrolled 12 community behavioral health clinics to receive 5 months of implementation support. Clinics randomized to the standardized implementation received electronic health record data captured with the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), a needs assessment, clinical training, guidelines, and group consultation in MBC fidelity. Tailored implementation support included these strategies, but the training content was tailored to clinics’ barriers to MBC, and group consultation centered on overcoming these barriers. Clinicians (N=83, tailored; N=71, standardized) delivering individual psychotherapy to 4,025 adults participated. Adult patients (N=87, tailored; N=141, standardized) contributed data for depression outcome analyses. Results: The odds of PHQ-9 completion were lower in the tailored group at baseline (odds ratio [OR]=0.28, 95% CI=0.08–0.96) but greater at 5 months (OR=3.39, 95% CI=1.00–11.48). The two implementation groups did not differ in full MBC fidelity. PHQ-9 scores decreased significantly from baseline (mean±SD=17.6±4.4) to 12 weeks (mean=12.6±5.9) (p<0.001), but neither implementation group nor MBC fidelity significantly predicted PHQ-9 scores at week 12. Conclusions: Tailored MBC implementation outperformed standardized implementation with respect to PHQ-9 completion, but discussion of PHQ-9 scores in clinician-patient sessions remained suboptimal. MBC fidelity did not predict week-12 depression severity. MBC can critically inform collaborative adjustments to session or treatment plans, but more strategic system-level implementation support or longer implementation periods may be needed.
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