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Abstract: DESCRIPTION: The Treatment Evaluation and Management (TEAM) system is designed to provide clinical decision support, documentation of outcomes, and continuous quality improvement for behavioral healthcare treatment. TEAM provides several unique features: (1) seamless monitoring of patient progress within and across primary care, chemical dependency and outpatient mental health treatment settings; (2) multivariate severity adjustment; (3) detection of inconsistent and/or malingering response patterns; and (4) prediction of expected course of treatment using hierarchical linear modeling. All aspects of TEAM (administrative procedures; data collection storage, analysis and reporting) will be fully automated to minimize administrative/respondent burden, maximize clinical utility and provide easy integration into routine clinical practice. Phase II goals are to establish patient and non-patient norms; construct measures for primary care (TEaM-PC) and chemical dependency (TEaM-CD); add counselor questionnaire to the mental health instrument (TEaM-MH); develop client server and web based server technologies to automate all TEAM functions; and derive algorithms for Expected Treatment Response (ETR) curves. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Behavioral health provides, primary care providers, HMOs, Managed Care Organization, Insurance Companies, Pharmaceutical Companies.

Thesaurus Terms:
computer assisted patient care, health care service evaluation, human therapy evaluation, mental health service, patient care management
Internet, behavior therapy, computer assisted medical decision making, health care facility information system, health care model, managed care, outcomes research, outpatient care, patient monitoring device
behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, health services research tag, human subject

Institution:	FIELD DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES, INC.
	825 TOWN CENTER DR, STE 110
	LANGHORNE, PA 19047
Fiscal Year:	2002
Department:
Project Start:	19-SEP-2001
Project End:	31-AUG-2003
ICD:	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
IRG:	ZRG1