A collaborative outcome resource network (ACORN): Tools for increasing the value of psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy (Chic)
; 52(4): 412-21, 2015 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26641371
The authors describe a collaborative outcomes resource network (ACORN) and the suite of measurement and decision support tools (ACORN Toolkit) that have emerged from this collaboration for the purpose of providing clinical feedback to therapists. The ACORN Toolkit is most accurately described as a comprehensive clinical information system designed to increase the value of mental health services across large systems of care. It was built to integrate large datasets from multiple sources including outcome data, client demographics and diagnostic data, therapist credentialing information, pharmacy data, and service claims data. For the limited purposes of this article, the authors focus on the ACORN Toolkit for measuring and how it has contributed to improving outcomes in psychotherapy. Implications to current practice and future training are provided.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
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Psychotherapy
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Cooperative Behavior
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Decision Support Systems, Clinical
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Interdisciplinary Communication
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Mental Disorders
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Psychotherapy (Chic)
Year:
2015
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Article