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Public-Academic Partnerships: A Program to Improve the Quality of Antipsychotic Prescribing in a Community Mental Health System

Mary F. Brunette, M.D. [email protected], Alexander de Nesnera, M.D., Karin Swain, M.S., Erik G. Riera, Ed.M., M.B.A., Doris Lotz, M.D., and Stephen J. Bartels, M.S., M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 62, Number 9

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.9.pss6209_1004

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State mental health authorities can use public-academic partnerships to create professional roles in which leaders can track trends, identify problems, and carry out quality improvement projects to address key issues. Leaders with positions in both academic institutions and state mental health authorities ensure access to resources, technical expertise, and key relationships to improve quality. The authors describe a public-academic partnership in New Hampshire and a quality improvement program it carried out. The program encourages providers at community mental health centers to adopt prescribing practices that limit the cardiometabolic side effects of antipsychotic medicines. (Psychiatric Services 62:1004–1006, 2011)

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Cover: Approaching Thunder Storm, by Martin Johnson Heade, 1859. Oil on canvas, 28 × 44 inches. Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, 1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York.

Psychiatric Services

Volume 62 • Number 9 • September 2011

Pages: 1004 - 1006

PubMed: 21885576

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Published in print: September 2011

Published online: 14 January 2015

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Mary F. Brunette, M.D. [email protected]

Dr. Brunette is affiliated with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (NHDHHS) and the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, State Office Park South, 105 Pleasant St., Concord, NH 03301 (e-mail: [email protected]).

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Alexander de Nesnera, M.D.

Dr. de Nesnera and Dr. Bartels are with Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, where Ms. Swain was affiliated until her retirement.

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Karin Swain, M.S.

Dr. de Nesnera and Dr. Bartels are with Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, where Ms. Swain was affiliated until her retirement.

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Erik G. Riera, Ed.M., M.B.A.

Mr. Riera and Dr. Lotz are with the Bureau of Behavioral Health, NHDHHS, Concord, New Hampshire. Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., and Brian Hepburn, M.D. are editors of this column.

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Doris Lotz, M.D.

Mr. Riera and Dr. Lotz are with the Bureau of Behavioral Health, NHDHHS, Concord, New Hampshire. Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H., and Brian Hepburn, M.D. are editors of this column.

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Stephen J. Bartels, M.S., M.D.

Dr. de Nesnera and Dr. Bartels are with Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, where Ms. Swain was affiliated until her retirement.

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Public-Academic Partnerships: A Program to Improve the Quality of Antipsychotic Prescribing in a Community Mental Health System

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