Treatment results for severe psychiatric illness: which method is best suited to denote the outcome of mental health care? | BMC Psychiatry | Full Text
The present study investigates the suitability of various treatment outcome indicators to evaluate performance of mental health institutions that provide care to patients with severe mental illness. Several categorical approaches are compared to a reference indicator (continuous outcome) using pretest-posttest data of the Health of Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS).
