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Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 3/2016

01-05-2016 | Point of View

Implementing for Sustainability: Promoting Use of a Measurement Feedback System for Innovation and Quality Improvement

Authors: Susan Douglas, Suzanne Button, Susan E. Casey

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 3/2016

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Abstract

Measurement feedback systems (MFSs) are increasingly recognized as evidence-based treatments for improving mental health outcomes, in addition to being a useful administrative tool for service planning and reporting. Promising research findings have driven practice administrators and policymakers to emphasize the incorporation of outcomes monitoring into electronic health systems. To promote MFS integrity and protect against potentially negative outcomes, it is vital that adoption and implementation be guided by scientifically rigorous yet practical principles. In this point of view, the authors discuss and provide examples of three user-centered and theory-based principles: emphasizing integration with clinical values and workflow, promoting administrative leadership with the ‘golden thread’ of data-informed decision-making, and facilitating sustainability by encouraging innovation. In our experience, enacting these principles serves to promote sustainable implementation of MFSs in the community while also allowing innovation to occur, which can inform improvements to guide future MFS research.
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As a point of view, we focus primarily on the experience and work of the CFS development and implementation team. It should be noted that there is a growing literature on the implementation of MFSs and routine outcomes monitoring, which is partly represented by several of the authors in this special section.
 
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Metadata
Title
Implementing for Sustainability: Promoting Use of a Measurement Feedback System for Innovation and Quality Improvement
Authors
Susan Douglas
Suzanne Button
Susan E. Casey
Publication date
01-05-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-014-0607-8

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