R C Hermann

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Diagnoses of patients treated with ECT: a comparison of evidence-based standards with reported use
    R C Hermann
    Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 50:1059-65. 1999
  2. ncbi Process measures for the assessment and improvement of quality of care for schizophrenia
    Richard C Hermann
    Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139, USA
    Schizophr Bull 28:95-104. 2002
  3. ncbi Prescription of antipsychotic drugs by office-based physicians in the United States, 1989-1997
    Richard C Hermann
    Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 53:425-30. 2002
  4. ncbi Common ground: a framework for selecting core quality measures for mental health and substance abuse care
    Richard C Hermann
    Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 53:281-7. 2002
  5. ncbi The influence of psychiatric disorders on patients' ratings of satisfaction with health care
    R C Hermann
    The Cambridge Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Med Care 36:720-7. 1998
  6. ncbi Methods of cost-effectiveness analysis in the assessment of new drugs for Alzheimer's disease
    P J Neumann
    Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 48:1440-4. 1997
  7. ncbi Health utilities in Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study of patients and caregivers
    P J Neumann
    Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Care 37:27-32. 1999
  8. ncbi Cost-effectiveness of donepezil in the treatment of mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease
    P J Neumann
    Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neurology 52:1138-45. 1999
  9. ncbi Inpatient psychiatric treatment of elderly Medicare beneficiaries
    S L Ettner
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 49:1173-9. 1998
  10. ncbi A framework for measuring quality and promoting accountability across silos: the case of mental disorders and co-occurring conditions
    A M Kilbourne
    Department of Psychiatry, VA Ann Arbor National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:113-6. 2010

Detail Information

Publications22

  1. ncbi Diagnoses of patients treated with ECT: a comparison of evidence-based standards with reported use
    R C Hermann
    Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 50:1059-65. 1999
    ..This study assessed the extent to which patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) had diagnoses for which ECT is an efficacious treatment according to evidence-based standards...
  2. ncbi Process measures for the assessment and improvement of quality of care for schizophrenia
    Richard C Hermann
    Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139, USA
    Schizophr Bull 28:95-104. 2002
    ....
  3. ncbi Prescription of antipsychotic drugs by office-based physicians in the United States, 1989-1997
    Richard C Hermann
    Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 53:425-30. 2002
    ..This study examined trends in the prescription of antipsychotic drugs in a nationally representative sample of physicians in nonfederal office-based clinical practice during the 1990s...
  4. ncbi Common ground: a framework for selecting core quality measures for mental health and substance abuse care
    Richard C Hermann
    Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 53:281-7. 2002
    ..The authors present a framework for the selection of a core set of measures, clarify divergent perspectives, and make recommendations for further development of core quality measures for mental health care...
  5. ncbi The influence of psychiatric disorders on patients' ratings of satisfaction with health care
    R C Hermann
    The Cambridge Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Med Care 36:720-7. 1998
    ....
  6. ncbi Methods of cost-effectiveness analysis in the assessment of new drugs for Alzheimer's disease
    P J Neumann
    Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 48:1440-4. 1997
    ....
  7. ncbi Health utilities in Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study of patients and caregivers
    P J Neumann
    Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Med Care 37:27-32. 1999
    ....
  8. ncbi Cost-effectiveness of donepezil in the treatment of mild or moderate Alzheimer's disease
    P J Neumann
    Program on the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Neurology 52:1138-45. 1999
    ..To demonstrate the use of cost-effectiveness analysis to assess the economic impact of donepezil in the treatment of mild or moderate AD...
  9. ncbi Inpatient psychiatric treatment of elderly Medicare beneficiaries
    S L Ettner
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 49:1173-9. 1998
    ..The clinical characteristics and treatment patterns of elderly Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for psychiatric disorders were examined...
  10. ncbi A framework for measuring quality and promoting accountability across silos: the case of mental disorders and co-occurring conditions
    A M Kilbourne
    Department of Psychiatry, VA Ann Arbor National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:113-6. 2010
    ..METHODS AND FRAMEWORK: The framework will also be applied to better define which providers are accountable for quality improvement, to ultimately ensure that quality measures have an impact on improving care for COCs...
  11. ncbi Guideline recommendations for treatment of schizophrenia: the impact of managed care
    Barbara 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...
  12. ncbi Risk-adjusting outcomes of mental health and substance-related care: a review of the literature
    Richard C Hermann
    The Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research Veterans Health Administration, Boston, MA, USA
    Harv Rev Psychiatry 15:52-69. 2007
    ..8%. Results are appraised in the context of the mental health care system's needs for risk adjustment; we assess what has been accomplished, where gaps remain, and directions for future development...
  13. ncbi Achieving consensus across diverse stakeholders on quality measures for mental healthcare
    Richard C Hermann
    Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
    Med Care 42:1246-53. 2004
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  14. ncbi Statistical benchmarks for process measures of quality of care for mental and substance use disorders
    Richard C Hermann
    Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 57:1461-7. 2006
    ..This article describes the application of a method for developing statistical benchmarks for 12 process measures of quality of care for mental and substance use disorders...
  15. ncbi Quality indicators for international benchmarking of mental health care
    Richard C Hermann
    Tufts-New England Medical Center, Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health (CQAIMH, 750 Washington Street, NEMC# 345, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
    Int J Qual Health Care 18:31-8. 2006
    ..It addresses known quality problems and achieves some breadth across diverse dimensions of mental health care...
  16. ncbi Aligning measurement-based quality improvement with implementation of evidence-based practices
    Richard C Hermann
    Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health, Tufts NEMC s Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, NEMC 345, Boston, MA 02111, USA
    Adm Policy Ment Health 33:636-45. 2006
    ..This article explores the degree to which these two approaches are aligned and whether further coordination between them could yield greater effectiveness or efficiency...
  17. ncbi Best practices: Interpreting measurement data for quality improvement: standards, means, norms, and benchmarks
    Richard C Hermann
    Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health, Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
    Psychiatr Serv 54:655-7. 2003
  18. ncbi How and why community hospital clinicians document a positive screen for intimate partner violence: a cross-sectional study
    Megan R Gerber
    Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA
    BMC Fam Pract 6:48. 2005
    ..This two-part study examines primary care clinicians' chart documentation and attitudes when confronted by a positive waiting room screen for intimate partner violence (IPV)...
  19. ncbi Clinical improvement associated with conformance to HEDIS-based depression care
    Kathryn Rost
    Center for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, UCHSC at Fitzsimons, P O Box 6508 Mail Stop F496, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
    Ment Health Serv Res 7:103-12. 2005
    ..Employers recently requested a valid metric of depression treatment quality. Such an indicator needs to measure the proportion of the population in need who receive high-quality care, and to predict clinical improvement...
  20. ncbi Cost-utility analysis studies of depression management: a systematic review
    Paul A Pirraglia
    Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St, MPB 1, Providence, RI 02903, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 161:2155-62. 2004
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  21. ncbi Quality measurement in health care: a need for leadership amid a new federalism
    Richard C Hermann
    Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
    Harv Rev Psychiatry 11:215-9. 2003
  22. ncbi Do women who screen positive for mental disorders in primary care have lower mammography rates?
    Karen E Lasser
    Department of Medicine, The Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Gen Hosp Psychiatry 25:214-6. 2003
    ..Screening for mental disorders in primary care does not appear to identify women at risk for nonreceipt of mammography...