[PC-BH-Integration] PC-BH-Integration Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2

[Barbara Mauer]

Hello Lynn:
You might check out http://www.cqaimh.org/index.html, which developed
measures for integrated care as a part of the RWJ funded Depression in
Primary Care project. They have developed a searchable data base for
measurements in mental health and substance use programs, in varying
setting. 

Barbara J. Mauer
MCPP Healthcare Consulting

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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:40:17 -0400
From: Lynne.Padgett at kp.org
Subject: [PC-BH-Integration] Measuring Integrated service at a
	med-surg	hospital - evaluation
To: pc-bh-integration at lists101.his.com
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Hi everyone,
I'm a psychologist based in hospital medicine.  I work at a med-surg 
facility, and have no outpatient work.  Essentially, I'm a psychologist 
C/L service.  I receive consults primarily from hospitalists, but also 
from some specialty services.  At this point, patients aren't billed and

our visits are documented in the medical chart.  I think I have a great 
job. 

However, Our chief is looking for objective measures by which to review 
our performance.  Currently, we report our annual patient contacts. 
However, for our performance reviews, our activities don't "fit" the 
physician criteria (All CHF patients admits are followed on the CHF 
protocol), nor do they fit the outpatient Behavioral Health criteria (On

time for appointments). 

I'm open to any suggestions anyone would like to make regarding
measurable 
objective criteria. 
Thanks
L
Lynne S. Padgett, Ph.D.
Hospitalist/Health Psychologist

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