Open AccessQuantitative care norms for a psychiatric ambulatory population in a county medical assistance program.
Author(s) -
Carole Siegel,
Eugene Laska,
A Griffis,
Joseph Wanderling
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.68.4.352
Subject(s) - medicaid , variety (cybernetics) , ambulatory , psychiatry , medical care , population , ambulatory care , utilization review , psychology , medicine , family medicine , gerontology , environmental health , health care , political science , law , statistics , mathematics
An approach for developing quantitative care norms for outpatient acute psychiatric patients is presented. Both the methodological concept of the norming procedure and its application to the needs of Medicaid in Rockland County, New York are given. The methodology is totally general in that it could be applied to concerns related to characterization of services rendered in a wide variety of applications ranging from planning to utilization review. The norms developed relate both to monthly quantity of services rendered and length of active treatment period. Further, the impact of a review rule is discussed in terms of its implication to number of cases reviewed.