Fugard, AJB;
Stapley, E;
Ford, T;
Law, D;
Wolpert, M;
York, A;
(2015)
Analysing and reporting UK CAMHS outcomes: an application of funnel plots.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
, 20
(3)
pp. 155-162.
10.1111/camh.12086.
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Abstract
Background Patient-reported outcomes measures are increasingly being used in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). League tables are a common way of comparing organizations across health and education but have limitations that are not well known in CAMHS. Method Parent-rated Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) outcomes data from 15,771 episodes of care across 51 UK CAMHS were analysed using funnel plots, an alternative to league tables. Results While most services were indistinguishable from the national average there was evidence of heterogeneous outcomes and seven services had outcomes below 99.9% limits for SDQ added-value scores. Conclusions Funnel plots are powerful tools for navigating national data and can help prompt investigations using clinical theory and local service context. Examples are provided of factors to consider in these investigations. We argue that analyses of the local context are central to the valid application of funnel plots.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Analysing and reporting UK CAMHS outcomes: an application of funnel plots |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/camh.12086 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/camh.12086 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 The Authors. Child and Adolescent Mental Health published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | Patient-reported outcome measures, funnel plots, mental health, policy, national analysis, interpretation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471334 |
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