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CG123 Common mental health disorders - National Institute for ...

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Further assessment of risk and need <strong>for</strong> treatment, and routine outcome monitoringimpact of routine feedback, the GDG decided to support ROM, <strong>for</strong> the benefits it maybring both to the individual patients and to the in<strong>for</strong>mation it may supply about theoverall effectiveness of local care pathways. There<strong>for</strong>e, the GDG recommended theadoption of sessional ROM using measures already in place in the NHS, but with flexibility<strong>for</strong> individual practitioners to draw on a range of other <strong>for</strong>mal assessment measuresthat have good psychometric properties and are feasible <strong>for</strong> routine use. The GDGwas aware that such a recommendation has, essentially, a service focus and so developedthe recommendation with the intent of ensuring that it <strong>for</strong>med an importantelement of any local care pathway <strong>for</strong> people with a common <strong>mental</strong> <strong>health</strong> disorder.6.4.8 Recommendations6.4.8.1 Primary and secondary care clinicians, managers and commissionersshould work together to design local care pathways that have robustsystems <strong>for</strong> outcome measurement in place, which should be used toin<strong>for</strong>m all involved in a pathway about its effectiveness. This shouldinclude providing:● individual routine outcome measurement systems● effective electronic systems <strong>for</strong> the routine reporting and aggregationof outcome measures● effective systems <strong>for</strong> the audit and review of the overall clinical andcost effectiveness of the pathway.6.4.9 Research recommendations6.4.9.1 In people with a common <strong>mental</strong> <strong>health</strong> disorder, what is the clinical utilityof routine outcome measurement and is it cost effective compared withstandard care? (See Appendix 11 <strong>for</strong> further details.)187

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