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C L Beaudin

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PubMed2001

Nursing professionals & career positioning in managed behavioral health care.

1. Managed behavioral health care has been successful in managing costs and use. Other strategies must be implemented to actually manage the care and health of individuals or the population. 2. Nursing professionals need to assess their competencies and enhance their personal skill sets to manage their careers successfully and be effective practitioners in the new health care environment. 3. Adaptation is critical. The survival of the psychiatric nursing profession depends on it.

Career Mobility↗
PubMed1996

Consumer-based research: using focus groups as a method for evaluating quality of care.

In response to the consumer movement, health care organizations have become interested in obtaining feedback through face-to-face contacts with the people using their products and services. Focus groups are one qualitative research method of obtaining rich information within a social context. The article discusses the purpose, design, and methodology of focus groups, and a case example is given. Focus groups can add to existing knowledge about how well services are being delivered or what new products might be developed in the future.

Community Health Services↗
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Patient perceptions of coordinated care: the importance of organized communication in hospitals.

In today's healthcare environment, it is important to understand the dimensions along which healthcare consumers from their judgments about quality of care. This study was conducted to examine patient perceptions and observations about the coordination of care in a hospital setting and to identify the effect of patients' perspectives on satisfaction. The results suggest that even as lay observers, patients are interactors during their hospital experiences and their perceptions about care coordination are affected by communication patterns among healthcare professionals.

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The use of a prioritization matrix to preserve quality resources.

The prioritization of QI activities and clinical studies is necessary in identifying and developing programs that improve care and service. In practice, significant factors that contribute to higher matrix scores are as follows: The activity affects both high-volume and high-risk populations The activity uses secondary rather than primary data sources The activity incorporates outcome as well as process measures. Through the use of formal, systematic procedures and an objective tool such as the prioritization matrix, quality professionals can develop and successfully implement QI activities and clinical studies. The process described here is useful when resources are limited or fixed or when the activity supports integrated methods used by both MCO clients and other MBHOs, because it can reduce the overall costs of designing a study, implementation, analysis, reporting, and monitoring.

Decision Making, Organizational↗
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Collaboration for preventing substance abuse in the workplace: modeling research partnerships in prevention.

The managed care community and employers have expressed interest in substance abuse prevention, but there has been little consensus about which prevention and health promotion activities are most appropriately provided in the workplace. In the past 5 years, academicians have become increasingly interested in working with healthcare organizations to develop and implement short- and long-term research partnerships. The most helpful prevention research will serve mutual interests and produce mutual benefit. This article presents a preliminary guide to help facilitate greater collaboration among managed behavioral healthcare organizations, employee assistance programs, and health services researchers interested in preventing substance abuse in the workplace. This guide identifies broad objectives, topic areas, critical applications, and assumptions that can guide collaborative efforts in prevention research.

Cooperative Behavior↗
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Critical appraisal tools facilitate the work of the quality professional.

Quality management activities involve the application of scientific principles to performance improvement activities. With the plethora of available information, a systematic approach to evaluating the quality and usefulness of sources is necessary. One approach is critical appraisal, which is used to search for the best evidence or integrate evidence with clinical expertise. Two critical appraisal tools (CATs) are presented here, the first for any original clinical or health services research study and the second for research synthesis. The CAT scoring system and summaries of reviewed references facilitate understanding of the "state of the science" in the areas of interest.

Benchmarking↗