Leveraging available metadata in VA PTSD clinics and generating benchmarks for clinically significant change.
Leveraging available metadata in VA PTSD clinics and generating benchmarks for clinically significant change.
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利用 VA PTSD 诊所的可用元数据并为临床重大变化生成基准。
DOI:
10.1037/ccp0000779
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
Litz,BrettT
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作者:
Benfer,Natasha;Rusowicz-Orazem,Luke;Fielstein,ElliotM;Darnell,BenjaminC;Frankfurt,SheilaB;Mignogna,Joseph;Litz,BrettT
ObjectiveMeasurement-based care is designed to track symptom levels during treatment and leverage clinically significant change benchmarks to improve quality and outcomes. Though the Veterans Health Administration promotes monitoring progress within posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinical teams, actionability of data is diminished by a lack of population-based benchmarks for clinically significant change. We reported the state of repeated measurement within PTSD clinical teams, generated benchmarks, and examined outcomes based on these benchmarks.MethodPTSD Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition data were culled from the Corporate Data Warehouse from the pre-COVID-19 year for Veterans who received at least eight sessions in 14 weeks (episode of care [EOC] cohort) and those who received sporadic care (modal cohort). We used the Jacobson and Truax (1991) approach to generate clinically significant change benchmarks at clinic, regional, and national levels and calculated the frequency of cases that deteriorated, were unchanged, improved, or probably recovered, using our generated benchmarks and benchmarks from a recent study, for both cohorts.ResultsBoth the number of repeated measurements and the cases who had multisession care in the Corporate Data Warehouse were very low. Clinically significant change benchmarks were similar across locality levels. The modal cohort had worse outcomes than the EOC cohort.ConclusionsNational benchmarks for clinically significant change could improve the actionability of assessment data for measurement-based care. Benchmarks created using data from Veterans who received multisession care had better outcomes than those receiving sporadic care. Measurement-based care in PTSD clinical teams is hampered by low rates of repeated assessments of outcome.