Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System : Candidate Quality Measures for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Defining and Measuring Quality of Care -- How Quality Measures Are Used -- Quality Improvement -- Accountability -- Research -- Examples of Improved Performance over Time -- Overview of Our Process for Quality Measure Development -- Organization of the Report -- Chapter Two: Framework for Classifying Measures of Psychological Health Conditions -- Dimensions for the Framework -- Care Continuum -- Measure Type -- Matrix Framework for Classifying Psychological Health Measures -- Chapter Three: Identification of Measures of Quality of Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder -- Measure Selection by Expert Consensus -- Chapter Four: Overview of Candidate Sets of Measures of Care Quality for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder -- Description of Candidate Measures, by Care Continuum Phase -- Description of Candidate Measures, by Measure Type -- Description of Candidate Measures Using the Matrix Framework -- Examination of Need for New Measures -- Prevention -- Reintegration -- Structure Measures -- Chapter Five: Summary and Recommendations -- Study Limitations -- Recommendations -- Appendixes -- A. Definitions of Terms Used to Describe Quality Measures -- B. Descriptions of Measures of Quality of Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- C. Descriptions of Measures of Quality of Care for Major Depressive Disorder -- D. Additional Rationale for Cost Measure -- E. Candidate Set of Measures of Quality of Care for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- F. Candidate Set of Measures of Quality of Care for Major Depressive Disorder -- G. Sources of Measures -- Bibliography.

To inform improvements to the quality of care delivered by the military health system for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder, researchers developed a framework and identified, developed, and described a candidate set of measures for monitoring, assessing, and improving the quality of care. This document describes their research approach and the measure sets that they identified.

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