Adding a functional utility score to the evaluation of behavioral health screens in integrated care settings: What's all the FUS about?
| Autor: | Alexandros Maragakis, Sarah Lindeman, Jon Nolan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Health (social science) Medical setting 05 social sciences Research context System of care Integrated care 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Identification (information) 0302 clinical medicine Healthcare delivery Risk analysis (engineering) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Metric (unit) Psychology Social psychology Applied Psychology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. 6:226-229 |
| ISSN: | 2212-1447 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcbs.2017.04.008 |
| Popis: | As healthcare delivery is rapidly changing, the rise of integrated care systems is becoming more prominent. A vital pathway of care in these new integrated care systems is the screening and identification of behavioral health issues through the use of efficient and valid behavioral health screens. While research examining the utility of these screens tends to focus on traditional psychometric properties, such as sensitivity and specificity, these fail to measure how well these screens will generalize to medical settings outside the research context. This leads to the creation of behavioral health screens that have adequate psychometric properties but questionable functional utility in the medical setting. The current paper provides a justification and framework for examining the concept of a “functional utility score” (FUS), which assesses a screen's ability to be useful within its intended system of care. The use of such a metric can improve research on behavioral health screens, and ensure that new measures will be able to meet the needs of the integrated care setting. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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