| Abstract: |
This report examines the feasibility of incorporating patient outcomes in
mental health into a productivity measure. It examines which outcome measures
are most commonly used in mental health, the practical issues about collecting
these outcome measures, whether they can be converted into a generic measure,
whether there is a time series of data available, and whether the data exists
to examine changes in the mix of treatments over time. The criteria that were
assumed to be important for an outcome measure to be included in a
productivity index, were that it should have wide coverage, should be
routinely collected, could readily be linked to activity data, could
potentially be converted to a generic outcome measure, and would be available
as a time-series. The report focuses predominantly on mental health outcomes
within the working age population. Literature searches on outcome measurement
in mental health covered numerous databases and retrieved over 1500 records.
Around 170 full papers were obtained. |