How widely is outcomes-informed care practiced?
Some of the earliest adopters of outcomes-informed care were large managed behavioral health care organizations (MBHOs) that began to systematically collect treatment outcome data for as many patients as possible within their systems of care10,40-42. Published reports of findings from these large-scale outcomes management projects have led to rapidly increasing adoption of the methods by therapists and behavioral healthcare organizations throughout the United States. In these outcomes-informed care, the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ) family of outcome measures, including the OQ-30, YOQ-30, and OQ-45 are the most widely used43-46. Among brief measures, variations on the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Changes four-item Outcome Rating Scale have been used throughout the world in various outcomes informed care initiatives. Much of the data collected by the MBHOs have shared with academic researchers from a variety of institutions, and this ongoing collaboration between the MBHOs and re
