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Performance measurement for co-occurring mental health and substance use disordersDavid J Dausey
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 4:18. 2009..It is therefore critical that performance measures are developed to assess the quality of care for individuals with COD irrespective of whether they seek care in mental health systems or substance abuse systems or both...
Measuring the performance of telephone-based disease surveillance systems in local health departmentsDavid J Dausey
RAND Corp, 4570 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1706-11. 2008..We tested telephone-based disease surveillance systems in local health departments to identify system characteristics associated with consistent and timely responses to urgent case reports...
State mental health policy: states' early experience in improving systems-level care for persons with co-occurring disordersDavid J Dausey
RAND Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:903-5. 2007....
Designing and conducting tabletop exercises to assess public health preparedness for manmade and naturally occurring biological threatsDavid J Dausey
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
BMC Public Health 7:92. 2007..This paper summarizes lessons learned from tabletop exercises about public health emergency preparedness and about the process of developing, conducting, and evaluating them...
Community planning for pandemic influenza: lessons from the VA health care systemNicole Lurie
RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2:251-7. 2008..As the nation's largest integrated health care system, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) could be a key component of community planning...
Bioterrorism with zoonotic disease: public health preparedness lessons from a multiagency exerciseBrian A Jackson
Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, USA
Biosecur Bioterror 4:287-92. 2006..The exercise is described and broader policy lessons regarding preparedness planning are discussed...
How can we strengthen the evidence base in public health preparedness?Christopher D Nelson
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2:247-50. 2008....
Response to the 2009-H1N1 influenza pandemic in the Mekong Basin: surveys of country health leadersMelinda Moore
Health Unit, RAND Corporation, Arlington VA, USA
BMC Res Notes 4:361. 2011..abstract:..
Public health response to urgent case reportsDavid J Dausey
RAND, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..Development and implementation of measures of public health agencies' performance are crucial to improving public health preparedness and, ultimately, to assuring the agencies...
Psychiatric comorbidity and the prevalence of HIV infection in a sample of patients in treatment for substance abuseDavid J Dausey
Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VA Connecticut Health Care System, NEPEC, Mail Code 182, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:10-7. 2003....
The effects of federal versus state funding and academic affiliation on mental health servicesRani A Desai
Northeast Program Evaluation Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 32:267-83. 2005..These findings suggest that, unlike findings from the general medical literature, academic affiliation is unrelated to the quality and delivery of mental health care...
Mental health service delivery and suicide risk: the role of individual patient and facility factorsRani A Desai
US Department of Veterans Affairs, Northeast Program Evaluation Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:311-8. 2005..This study explores suicide rates as a quality measure and identifies risk factors for suicide among psychiatric inpatients...
Health correlates of recreational gambling in older adultsRani A Desai
Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women s Health Research at Yale, Division of Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1672-9. 2004..The objective of this study was to identify health and well-being correlates of past-year recreational gambling in adults age 65 years and older, compared to adults age 18-64 years...
Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in a sample of homeless people with mental illnessRani A Desai
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and North East Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC, NEPEC/182, West Haven VAMC, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:365-71. 2003..The authors conclude that homeless people with mental illness are at particularly high risk for suicidal behavior, however, only in part because of the high prevalence of traditional risk factors...
Preadmission care as a new mental health performance indicatorDavid J Dausey
Northeast Program Evaluation Center, Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:1451-5. 2002..This study examined the relationship between receipt of preadmission outpatient care during the month before an episode of hospitalization and the patients' subsequent treatment...
