Manual of psychiatric quality assurance Book

Quality Assurance and Utilization Review in Psychiatry: A Historical Perspective. An evolution of cost-control approaches to health care. Introduction to the American Psychiatric Association's involvement in quality assurance and utilization review. District branch peer review committees. Quality Assurance and Utilization Review in Psychiatry: Practical Issues. Defining and measuring quality. Concepts and definitions used in quality assurance and utilization review. Legal aspects of quality assurance. Ethics of peer review. Confidentiality. Credentialing of peer reviewers. Quality Assurance in Hospitals and Other Facilities. Quality assurance monitoring in psychiatry. The joint commission quality assessment and improvement model. Some suggestions for psychiatric quality assurance and risk management review activities. Developing a corrective action plan. The role of quality assurance in credentialing hospital medical staff. Quality assurance in military psychiatry. Quality assurance in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Quality assurance in jails and prisons. Review Criteria. Utilization review criteria for adult short-term hospitalization. Utilization review criteria for adult extended hospitalization. Peer review of children and adolescents. Issues in the review of adult outpatient therapy. Quality assurance and utilization review of individual medical psychotherapies. Chemical dependency disorders. Eating disorders. Residential treatment centers. Electroconvulsive therapy guidelines and criteria. Psychopharmacological screening criteria. Generic quality screens-psychiatric developed by the Health Care Financing Administration for use by peer review organizations. Guidelines for psychiatric practice in community mental health centers. Psychiatric supervision issues for peer reviewers and guidelines regarding psychiatrists' signatures. Index.

American Psychiatric Publishing