A Successful Implementation Strategy to Support Adoption of Decision Making in Mental Health Services

Individual involvement in treatment decisions with providers, often through the use of decision support aids, improves quality of care. This study investigates an implementation strategy to bring decision support to community mental health centers (CMHC). Fifty-two CMHCs implemented a decision suppo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Community mental health journal 2017-04, Vol.53 (3), p.251-256
Hauptverfasser: MacDonald-Wilson, Kim L., Hutchison, Shari L., Karpov, Irina, Wittman, Paul, Deegan, Patricia E.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Individual involvement in treatment decisions with providers, often through the use of decision support aids, improves quality of care. This study investigates an implementation strategy to bring decision support to community mental health centers (CMHC). Fifty-two CMHCs implemented a decision support toolkit supported by a 12-month learning collaborative using the Breakthrough Series model. Participation in learning collaborative activities was high, indicating feasibility of the implementation model. Progress by staff in meeting process aims around utilization of components of the toolkit improved significantly over time (p 
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-016-0027-1