scholarly journals Clinical Decision-Making in Community Children’s Mental Health: Using Innovative Methods to Compare Clinicians With and Without Training in Evidence-Based Treatment

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary J. Baker-Ericzén ◽  
Melissa M. Jenkins ◽  
Soojin Park ◽  
Ann F. Garland
Author(s):  
Skye P. Barbic ◽  
Stefan J. Cano

Clinical outcome assessment (COA) in mental health is essential to inform patient-centred care and clinical decision-making. In this chapter, the reader is introduced to COA as it is evolving in the field of mental health. Multiple approaches to COA are presented, but emphasis is placed on approaches that generate clinically meaningful data. Understanding COA can position clinicians and stakeholders to better evaluate their own practice and to contribute to the ongoing evolution of COA research and evidence-based medicine. This chapter begins with the definitions of assessment and measurement. Conceptual frameworks and models of COA development and testing are then presented. These are followed by a discussion of measurement in practice that reviews measurement issues related to clinical decision-making, programme evaluation, and clinical trials. Finally, this chapter highlights the contribution of metrology to improving health outcomes of individuals who experience mental health disorders.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubrey L. Carpenter ◽  
Donna B. Pincus ◽  
Phoebe H. Conklin ◽  
Christopher M. Wyszynski ◽  
Brian C. Chu ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Jeri A. Logemann

Evidence-based practice requires astute clinicians to blend our best clinical judgment with the best available external evidence and the patient's own values and expectations. Sometimes, we value one more than another during clinical decision-making, though it is never wise to do so, and sometimes other factors that we are unaware of produce unanticipated clinical outcomes. Sometimes, we feel very strongly about one clinical method or another, and hopefully that belief is founded in evidence. Some beliefs, however, are not founded in evidence. The sound use of evidence is the best way to navigate the debates within our field of practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Briana S. Last ◽  
Simone H. Schriger ◽  
Carter E. Timon ◽  
Hannah E. Frank ◽  
Alison M. Buttenheim ◽  
...  

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