Is there an association between outcomes-informed care and the role of common factors in treatment outcomes?
The methods associated with outcomes-informed care were first developed by psychotherapy researchers that were well known for their work in evaluating evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy through more sophisticated methods such as meta analysis and hierarchical linear modeling7,10,12,24. Through comprehensive reviews of the literature, these researchers realized the apparent importance of common factors across treatment methods and began to investigate methods to improve patient outcomes that were independent of the utilized treatment. Outcomes-informed care recognizes that the effect of any treatment is largely dependent on who delivers the treatment. Recent advances in research have led to a rapidly growing body of studies concerned with the role of the individual therapist in the outcome of care28-39. This body of evidence from both clinical trials and real world settings demonstrate that the individual therapist is the single most important ingredient in the effects of t
