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Perspective On Evaluation

Readmission Rates to Community Mental Health Centers as a Measure of Program Effectiveness

A. Jack Turner

Huntsville-Madison County, Medical Center, Huntsville, Alabama

The noncritical utilization of readmission figures as presently collected to evaluate community mental health centers is questroned in this report Several issues are raised concerning the validity and relia bility of readmission rate figures collected at the community mental health center level. The paper argues that these issues must be addressed prior to the utilization of readmission rates as an indicator of success or failure for community mental health centers.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 2, No. 1, 20-31 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/016327877900200102
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