Mental Health Performance Measures

Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health (CQAIMH) Quality Measure Inventory
Searchable database of more than 300 mental health performance measures

Experience of Care and Health Outcomes Survey (ECHOTM)
Mental health patient experience of care survey instrument

Foundation for Accountability – MDD Measures
Legacy documents maintained by the Markle Foundation

Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) 2008
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Health-plan level measures include several mental health measures

Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS) Core Measure Set
Joint Commission

Health Disparities Collaboratives (HDC) Depression Measures
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) Behavioral Health Guidelines
MDD and ADHD guidelines include performance measures

National Quality Forum Ambulatory Care Performance Measures
Descriptions of 12 Mental Health Measures start on page A-71

National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Searchable compendium of performance measures from many domains of healthcare, including mental health

Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement MDD Measures
American Medical Association

Quality Measures for Schizophrenia
Compiled by New York State Office of Mental Health

Standards for Bipolar Excellence (STABLE) Project
Maintained by CQAIMH

VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Includes guidelines and measures for MDD, Psychoses, and Substance Use Disorder

Washington Circle Substance Use Disorder Measures
Core set of performance measures for alcohol and other drug services for public- and private-sector health plans


Do you know of more mental health performance measures?  Please write to qips@psych.org.