It is crucial to address mental health routinely when evaluating patients receiving supportive care, as lack of diagnosis and treatment can lead to suffering, nonadherence to treatment, and morbidity. It has been suggested that underlying depression may actually affect survival in patients with cancer,...
Payers, who have traditionally accepted mental health treatment as advertised, are increasingly demanding empirical evidence of mental health treatment effectiveness, requiring examination of a widening range of outcome measures. Full-course evaluation that once involved single measures of effectiveness (i.e...
This Issue Views2,002 Citations0 7 Medical News in Brief April 19, 2024 Emily Harris JAMA.2024;331(18):1526. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.5927 FullText Patients with heart disease as well as anxiety or depression who received mental health treatments tended to have a substantially lower risk of mor...
Impact of Medicare Part D on mental health treatment and outcomes for dual eligible beneficiaries with HIVDepression is common among women with HIV and untreated depression can result in poor quality of life and worsen HIV outcomes. Women with HIV who are dually enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare ...
This study examined the long-term outcomes of mental health treatment, specifically individual therapy, group therapy, and pharmacotherapy, in a population-based study. Using a prospective cohort design, the effectiveness of mental health treatment was analyzed on the basis of data from an epidemiologi...
Confounding by indication occurs when a variable is both associated with the outcome as well as receipt of the intervention/treatment interest, without being on the causal pathway. The above comment specifically raises the question of uncontrolled confounding by mental health concerns that are not “...
Assessing performance of mental health services (MHS) providers merely by their outcomes is insufficient. Process factors, such as treatment cost or duration, should also be considered in a meaningful and thorough analysis of quality of care. The present study aims to examine various performance indi...
a half times the rate of theworkforcein child and adolescentpsychiatry. A 22% increase in the overall mental-health workforce in the five years to 2021-22 could never have matched a 44 % increase inreferrals for all patients. ...
"Cost-Outcome Methods for Mental Health" provides an overview of the choices and judgments used to evaluate the cost effectiveness of mental health treatment. It presents economic concepts of cost, discusses the various approaches to cost-outcome studies, and focuses on the way such studies apply ...
Depression and other mental health outcomes are similar for men choosing different options for initial treatment of localized prostate cancer, reports a study in the Journal of Urology.