Performance improvement teams for better psychiatric rehabilitation

Despite the promise of psychiatric rehabilitation, many programs fail to in corporate innovative rehabilitation practices into their day-to-day regimen s. Performance improvement is an effective paradigm for helping agencies im prove the quality of their programs. Four phases of performance improvement are reviewed in this article: organizing for change, preparing the environ ment, focusing the environment, and maintaining improvement. Implementing t he four phases of performance improvement is illustrated in a case study. M ethodological rigor of data generated by performance improvement teams is a lso discussed.