APS Outcome-Informed Care Clinician Training

Overview Importance & Benefits of Outcome-Informed Care APS Outcome-Informed Care Initiative –Goal –Process –Clinician Tool Kit Question & Answer Appendix –Resources –Research

What is Outcome-Informed Care? Outcome-Informed Care is the practice and system of providing psychotherapy treatment that is informed by patient-reported treatment outcomes.

Importance of Outcome-Informed Care Routine patient feedback to clinicians improves treatment outcomes –Identifies patients who are most at risk for treatment failure –Increases identification of clinical risks Suicide: Routine feedback improved detection by 15% The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Vol. 24, No. 2, 2003, pp Substance abuse: Significant reduction in under-reporting with introduction of feedback Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, Vol. 30 (8), August 2004, pp –Early identification permits proactive work to keep patients engaged in treatment

Importance of Outcome-Informed Care Recommended by APA & IOM –APA 2005 EBPP standard: “ongoing monitoring of patient progress and adjustment of treatment as needed are essential to EBPP” (p. 3) –IOM 2006 standard 4.2: “Clinicians and organizations providing services should: –Increase their use of valid and reliable patient questionnaires or other patient-assessment instruments…to assess the progress and outcomes of treatment systematically and reliably –Use measures of processes and outcomes of care to continuously improve the quality of care…” (p. 12)

Benefits of Outcome-Informed Care Improves patient outcomes Objective measurement system –National normative database (1996 – present) –Case mix adjustment –Data demonstrates quality of care Provides data/trends not currently available –Collects patient self-reported diagnostic and symptom information –Measures and tracks reported progress –Real-time treatment outcome report

APS Outcome-Informed Care Initiative GOAL: Assist clinician in improving member health Tactics: –Educate about outcome-informed care –Provide tools to deliver outcome-informed care Initial Clinician assessment (baseline) Member survey (measures) –Global Distress –Substance abuse –Therapist alliance –Overall health status Online Clinician toolkit (view/track patient feedback/outcomes) –Alert clinician of member elevated risk –Encourage voluntary enrollment in initiative via incentives

APS Outcome-Informed Care: Process APS: –Mail pre-printed Provider Assessment & Member Survey with authorization packet –Post patient/member feedback on secure website –Contact clinician if member survey shows elevated risk Office staff: –Administer member survey every session –After clinician review, fax to Clinician –Complete initial provider assessment –View outcome data on secure personal webpage (clinician toolkit) within 24 hours view –Discuss with patients; create a culture of feedback within each treatment

Provider Assessment Demonstrates outcomes –Baseline for member survey –Case mix variables Data-driven –Tested –Measured User friendly –1 page –8 questions

Member Survey Measures –Global Distress Anxiety and depression Interpersonal problems Impaired productivity (work & other daily activities Concerns about health problems Feelings of hopelessness & thoughts of suicide –Substance abuse –Therapist alliance –Overall health status

Clinician Toolkit Secure online access to outcome data Summary statistics and case level data –Graph progress for individual cases –Compare results to national benchmarks & meta- analyses of psychotherapy studies Outcome data updated multiples times per day

Improved Outcomes: Success! (baseline 2006) 2006 Baseline % improvement % improvement

Question & Answer

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Appendix: Resources Frequently Asked Questions  Technical/Data/Web:    General comments or questions:   , extension 3320

Appendix: Supporting Research 1. Wampold BE The great psychotherapy debate: Models, Methods, and Findings. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 272 pp.Wampold BE 2. Westen D, Morrison K A multidimensional meta-analysis of treatments for depression, panic, and generalized anxiety disorder: An empirical examination of the status of empirically supported therapies. J Consul Clin Psychol 69: Westen D, Morrison K Sapyta J, Riemer M, Bickman L Feedback to Clinician: theory, research, and practice. J Clin Psychol 61(2): Sapyta J, Riemer M, Bickman L Hannan C, Lambert MJ, Harmon C et al A lab test and algorithms for identifying clients at risk for treatment failure. J Clin Psychol 61(2): Hannan C, Lambert MJ, Harmon C et al Lambert MJ, Harmon C, Slade K et al Providing feedback to psychoClinicians on their patients progress: Clinical results and practice suggestions J Clin Psychol 61(2): Lambert MJ, Harmon C, Slade K et al Harmon C, Hawkins, Lambert MJ et al Improving outcomes for poorly responding clients: The use of clinical support tools and feedback to clients. J Clin Psychol 61(2): Harmon C, Hawkins, Lambert MJ et al Brown GS, Jones ER Implementation of a feedback system in a managed care environment: What are patients teaching us? J Clin Psychol 61(2): Brown GS, Jones ER Miller SD, Duncan BL, Ryan S, et al The Partners for Change Outcome Management System. J Clin Psychol 61(2): Miller SD, Duncan BL, Ryan S, et al Claiborn CD, Goodyear EK Feedback in psychotherapy. J Clin Psychol 61(2): Claiborn CD, Goodyear EK Brown GS, Burlingame GM, Lambert MJ, et al Pushing the quality envelope: A new outcomes management system. Psychiatr Serv 52(7): Brown GS, Burlingame GM, Lambert MJ, et al Lueger RJ Using feedback on patient progress to predict the outcome of psychotherapy. J Clin Psychol 54: Lueger RJ Lambert MJ, Whipple JL, Smart DW, et al The effects of providing Clinicians with feedback on patient progress during psychotherapy: Are outcomes enhanced? Psychother Res 11(1):49-68.Lambert MJ, Whipple JL, Smart DW, et al. 13. Lambert MJ, Whipple JL, Vermeersch DA, et al Enhancing psychotherapy outcomes via providing feedback on client progress: A replication. Clin Psychol Psychother 9: Lambert MJ, Whipple JL, Vermeersch DA, et al. 14. Whipple JL, Lambert MJ, Vermeersch DA, et al Improving the effects of psychotherapy: The use of early identification of treatment failure and problem-solving strategies in routine practice. J Counsel Psychol 50(1):59-68.Whipple JL, Lambert MJ, Vermeersch DA, et al. 15. Lambert MJ, Whipple JL, Hawkins EJ, et al Is it time for clinicians to routinely track patient outcome? A meta-analysis. Clin Psychol Sci Prac 10: Addis ME Methods for disseminating research products and increasing evidence-based practice: Promises, obstacles, and future directions. Clin Psychol Sci Prac 9: Chorpita BF, Yim LM, Donkervoet JC, et al Toward large-scale implementation of empirically supported treatments for children: A review and observations by the Hawaii Empirical Basis to Services Task Force. Clin Psychol Sci Prac 9: Herschell AD, McNeil CB, McNeil DW Clinical child psychology’s progress in empirically supported treatments. Clin Psychol Sci Prac 11: Manderscheid RW, Henderson MJ Mental health, United States, 2002 executive summary. Admin Policy Mental Health 32: Stirman SW, Crits-Christoph P, DeRubeis RJ Achieving successful dissemination of empirically supported psychotherapies: A synthesis of dissemination theory. Clin Psychol Sci Prac 11: Rosenzweig S Some implicit common factors in diverse methods of psychotherapy: “At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won and all must have prizes.’” Am J Orthopsychiatry 6: Shapiro DA, Shapiro D Meta-analysis of comparative therapy outcome studies: A replication and refinement. Psychol Bull 92: Robinson LA, Berman JS, Neimeyer RA Psychotherapy for treatment of depression: A comprehensive review of controlled outcome research. Psychol Bull 108:30-49.Robinson LA, Berman JS, Neimeyer RA

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