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Managed care and children's behavioral health services in MassachusettsB Dickey
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Psychiatr Serv 52:183-8. 2001..The authors investigated changes in treatment patterns and costs of care for children after the implementation of the Massachusetts Medicaid carve-out managed care plan...- Associations between adherence to guidelines for antipsychotic dose and health status, side effects, and patient care experiencesBarbara Dickey
Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Med Care 44:827-34. 2006..Examples of evidence-based guidelines are the PORT recommendations for the treatment of schizophrenia. However, few studies have examined the relationship between adherence to guidelines and patient outcomes in clinical settings... - Toward a model for testing the relationship between quality of care and costsBarbara Dickey
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 7:15-21. 2004..In mental health services research there is little empirical evidence to support speculation about the relationship between costs and quality... - Best practices: are financial incentives and best practices compatible?Barbara Dickey
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:130-1. 2004 - Externally caused deaths for adults with substance use and mental disordersBarbara Dickey
Department of Psychiatry, The Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 31:75-85. 2004..Medicaid beneficiaries with dual diagnoses are 6-8 times more likely to die of injury, primarily poisoning, than their counterparts treated for medical conditions only... - Guideline recommendations for treatment of schizophrenia: the impact of managed careBarbara Dickey
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:340-8. 2003..The purpose of this study was to compare the treatment of schizophrenia for disabled Medicaid beneficiaries who were and were not enrolled in managed care... - Therapeutic communities and mental health system reformBarbara Dickey
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA
Psychiatr Rehabil J 32:105-9. 2008..The contemporary relevance of therapeutic communities as a treatment modality in mental health is described... - Medical morbidity, mental illness, and substance use disordersBarbara Dickey
Harvard Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:861-7. 2002..The authors examined whether certain medical disorders are more prevalent among adults with severe mental illness and whether a comorbid substance use disorder increases prevalence beyond the effect of severe mental illness alone... - CONNECT: a measure of continuity of care in mental health servicesNorma C Ware
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 5:209-21. 2003..A broad initial validation strategy including known groups and convergent validity assessments produced results that will inform and focus future efforts. Next steps in the measure development process are discussed... - Managed mental health care's effects on arrest and forensic commitmentWilliam H Fisher
Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Int J Law Psychiatry 27:65-77. 2004 - A theory of social integration as quality of lifeNorma C Ware
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:27-33. 2008..This article returns attention to quality of life by offering a theory of social integration (as quality of life) for persons disabled by severe mental illness... - Use of a state inpatient forensic system under managed mental health careWilliam H Fisher
Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:447-51. 2002..The authors examined associations between Medicaid managed mental health care in Massachusetts and rates of admission to the inpatient forensic mental health service maintained by the state's mental health department... - Practitioner relationships and quality of care for low-income persons with serious mental illnessNorma C Ware
Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Second Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:555-9. 2004..This qualitative study described concepts of good care in relationships with psychiatrists, therapists, and case managers from the perspectives of low-income persons with psychiatric disabilities... - Connectedness and citizenship: redefining social integrationNorma C Ware
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:469-74. 2007..To effectively address the persisting problem of social exclusion of persons with psychiatric disabilities, new conceptual tools are needed. To address this need, a new definition of social integration is offered... - Ethnography and measurement in mental health: qualitative validation of a measure of continuity of care (CONNECT)Norma C Ware
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Qual Health Res 13:1393-406. 2003..In making explicit the data and the reasoning used, the authors argue for the trustworthiness of their interpretation. The arguments for trustworthiness demonstrate a qualitative validation process... - Does prospective payment reduce inpatient length of stay?Edward C Norton
Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7411, USA
Health Econ 11:377-87. 2002..16 and 0.20. The results were generally robust for short- and long stayers, and for persons admitted early and late after the change in payment mechanism. The model controlled for hospital fixed effects and individual random effects... - Assessing consumer perceptions of inpatient psychiatric treatment: the perceptions of care surveySusan V Eisen
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, EN Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Road 152, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:510-26. 2002.... - Limiting inpatient substance use treatment: what are the consequences?Barbara Dickey
Cambridge Hospital, USA
Med Care Res Rev 60:332-46. 2003..There was no evidence of cost shifting. Although emphasis on outpatient treatment did not result in cost shifting, the combination of substance use disorder and psychiatric illness remains an expensive public health problem...