A Pilot Study of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale as a Measurement of Outcome in a Private Psychiatric Hospital

1 December 1996

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Australasian Psychiatry

Vol. 4 (6) , 319-321
https://doi.org/10.3109/10398569609082076

Abstract

In this era of increasing accountability in health care there is a need for an easily administered reliable instrument to assess the outcome of patients treated for psychiatric illness. This need has been reviewed comprehensively by Andrews et al [1]. One of the several instruments they recommended was the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale instrument (HoNOS) [2,3]. This paper describes the introduction of the HoNOS in a private hospital setting.

Keywords

PILOT STUDY
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
NATION OUTCOME
PRIVATE PSYCHIATRIC
OUTCOME SCALE
MEASUREMENT OF OUTCOME

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

‘Health of the Nation’: measuring mental health outcomes
Psychiatric Bulletin, 1994
The Health of the Nation
Psychiatric Bulletin, 1994