Accountability of specialist child and adolescent mental health services.

Garralda, Elena M · Br J Psychiatry · 2009

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Outcome auditing of specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is now well under way internationally. There is, however, debate about objectives and tools. A case is made for the achievable goal of enhancing service accountability through user satisfaction information and clinician-rated contextualised measures of improvements in symptoms and impairment.

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