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[Routine Outcome Monitoring for patients with severe mental illness: a consensus document]
Tijdschrift Voor Psychiatrie
|March 6, 2010
Summary
Consensus on routine outcome monitoring (ROM) instruments for severely mentally ill patients (SMI) is needed. Standardized instruments improve mental health care, enabling benchmarking and research.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
- Health Services Research
Background:
- Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) involves regular patient assessments but lacks standardized instruments for severely mentally ill patients (SMI).
- Establishing consensus on ROM instruments for SMI (ROM-SMI) is crucial for consistent data collection and interpretation.
Framework:
- The National Remission Working Group developed a consensus document for ROM-SMI, addressing its rationale, assessment domains, and instrument selection.
- Recommended instruments for ROM-SMI are short, valid, reliable, multi-domain, patient-centered, and have prior research use.
Implementation:
- The working group advises selecting instruments from a limited, recommended set for ROM-SMI.
- Standardizing and aggregating ROM-SMI scores allows for meaningful comparisons and benchmarking across institutions.
Implications:
- Achieving consensus on ROM-SMI instruments and their application can enhance mental health care quality.
- Uniform ROM-SMI practices facilitate cross-institutional comparisons, benchmarking, and further research into patient outcomes.
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