A pilot study of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale as a measurement of outcome in a private psychiatric hospital.
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1996
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Goldney, R.
Fisher, L.
Walmsley, S.
Kent, P.
Cooper, A.
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Australasian Psychiatry, 1996; 4(6):319-321
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<jats:p> 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. </jats:p>