P. Roybyrne et al., A PSYCHIATRIST-RATED BATTERY OF MEASURES FOR ASSESSING THE CLINICAL STATUS OF PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS, Psychiatric services, 46(4), 1995, pp. 347-352
Despite trite increasing demand for outcome assessment measures, no pu
blished reports have provided a standardized way to assess psychiatric
inpatients that includes diagnosis and observer ratings of psychopath
ology. This paper reviews general principles for selecting outcome ass
essment measures, proposes a battery of instruments based on already a
vailable measures to assess clinical status in psychiatric inpatients,
reviews methods of implementing the battery in an academic inpatient
psychiatric Setting, and presents preliminary data on its interrater r
eliability, construct validity, and range of response to acute hospita
lization. Preliminary results suggest that the battery may be useful f
or resident and medical student education and for enhancing quality as
surance and continuous quality improvement.