Hospital Psychiatric Care
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Project Status: Completed
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Psychiatric Care
Current Activity: The appeals period closed on June 4, 2010.
The Opportunity
Mental health disorders are common within the United States; an estimated 57.7 million people suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year, including 6 percent of those individuals who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 Many of these patients will have an episode of hospital care. The National Quality Forum is considering these inpatient psychiatric process measures as standards to evaluate the performance of general hospitals with psychiatric units and freestanding psychiatric hospitals.
About the Project
This project began in February 2009. These measures are being considered to complement the psychiatric medication management measures endorsed in the Medication Management project.
This project is considering three process measures that focus on patient safety and complement the psychiatric medication management measures endorsed in the Medication Management project.
Review has been conducted by a Technical Advisory Panel of three experts in psychiatric care, along with the Steering Committee convened for the Hospital Outcomes and Efficiency project.
The member voting period closed January 5, 2010.
For more information related to this project, please review the full project details.
The public had 30 days to appeal the final decision made to endorse a voluntary consensus standard. The appeals process closed on June 4, 2010.
