Psychiatric Outcome Management System Using Clinical Pathways : Development, Evaluation, and Improvement

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The purpose of this research was to carry out development, evaluation, and improvement regarding the Psychiatric Outcome Management System Using Clinical Pathways(PSYCHOMS). This system has four major components :(1) clinical pathway and variance analyzing system,(2) nursing manager and staff' s daily recording system,(3) nursing care planning system, and(4) nursing management support system. Also, any interdisciplinary team member can access the patient' s information using this system. Therefore, each interdisciplinary team member' s expertise can be utilized maximally for the patient' s benefit and for improved total outcomes. As future research challenge, in order to improve psychiatric services, it is necessary to develop the database common to each psychiatric hospital in Japan. Therefore, it was confirmed the necessity of standardization for data base of the PSYCHOMS as a research agenda for commercialization of the PSYCHOMS.