Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 9
- September 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages635–641Public mental health and mental retardation agencies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their accountability in fiscal, legal, program, and other areas. The author discusses some of the problems and issues in pinpointing accountability and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.9.635Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages641–643For the past eight years Minnesota has had a review board for each state hospital serving the mentally ill and the mentally retarded. Each board consists of at least three individuals appointed by the commissioner of the department of public welfare. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.9.641Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages644–647Psychiatrists employed by bureaucracies must make a number of compromises in order to reconcile their employing organization's formally stated aims, their superiors' day-today expectations, and their traditional role model of physician and patient-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.9.644Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages647–649The unitized psychiatric hospital poses unique problems for the design of successful program evaluation systems. Using the model of program evaluation in operation at the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York, the authors describe what they have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.9.647Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages650–653The authors discuss evaluation studies of the community mental health centers program. They emphasize that program evaluation is a political activity to infi uence the allocation of public resources. They examme its relationship to decision-making, power ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.9.650Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages653–656The Cumberland County CMHC in Fayetteville, North Carolina, developed a series of computer programs to produce the information that is required by area and regional utilization review committees. There is a total of eight programs. The first establishes a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.9.653Publication date: 01 September 1976
Pages656–659The author describes a system for psychiatric peer review developed by a peer review committee in a general hospital. At the heart of the system is aform called the peer review check sheet, which requires the physician to specify diagnosis, reasons for ...
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