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Crime Victims and Criminal Offenders Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness Psychiatric Services 58: 11, 1483 - 1485 November 2007 (Pandiani, Banks, Carroll, Schlueter) Article

Access to Community Mental Health Services: A Study of Adult Victims of Trauma Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal  3: 2  1 - 8 Summer 2007 (Schacht, Pandiani, and Banks)

Criminal Justice Involvement in Survey Respondents and Non-respondents among Mental Health Service Recipients Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal  2: 2  23 - 30 Summer 2006 (Pandiani, Banks, and Mongeon) Book

Elevated Cancer Incidence Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness Psychiatric Services 57: 7, 1032 - 1034 July 2006 (Pandiani, Boyd, Banks, Johnson) Article

Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.  Journal of Child and Family Studies 14: 3, 431-441 September 2005 (Pandiani, Banks, Simon, Van Vleck, Pomeroy) Article

Involvement in the Criminal Justice System Among Recipients of Mental Health Services After September 11. Psychiatric Services  56: 80-84 January 2005 (Pandiani JA, Knisley MB, Banks SM, Simon M, Blackburn P) Article

Impact of Multi-Agency Employment Services on Employment Rates.  Community Mental Health Journal 40: 333-345 August 2004 (Pandiani, Tracy, Simon, Banks) Article

Elevated Risk of Arrest for Veteran’s Administration Behavioral Health Service Recipients in Four Florida Counties.  Law and Human Behavior, 27:  289-298 June 2003 (Pandiani, Rosenheck, and Banks)  Article

Mortality of Mental Health Service Recipients in Vermont and Oklahoma.  Psychiatric Services, 53: 1025-1027 August 2002 (Pandiani, Banks, Bramley, Moore) Article

 Measuring Access To Mental Health Care: A Multi-indicator Approach to Program Evaluation.  Evaluation and Program Planning 25 : 271-285 August 2002  (Pandiani, Banks, Bramley, Pomeroy, Simon)   Article

Approaches to Risk Adjusting Outcome Measures Applied to Criminal Justice Involvement after Community Service. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research. 28: 235-246  August 2001 (Banks, Pandiani, and Bramley) Article

Consumer Satisfaction and Treatment Outcomes: Dissatisfaction with Mental Health Services and Incarceration after Treatment.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health. 29: 145-155  November 2001 (Pandiani, Schacht, Banks) Article

After Children’s Services: A Longitudinal Study of Significant Life Events. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders  9: 131-138 Summer 2001 (Banks, Pandiani, and Schacht) Article

Probabilistic Population Estimation of the Size and Overlap of Data Sets Based on Date of Birth. Statistics in Medicine 20: 1421-1430  May 2001  (Banks and Pandiani) Article

Caseload Segregation/Integration and Treatment Outcomes for Children and Adolescents.  Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 9: 232-238, Winter 2001 (Banks, Pandiani, and Schacht)  Article

Bed Closures and Incarceration Rates among Users of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services. Psychiatric Services 51:10 1282-1287 (Rosenheck, Banks, Pandiani, and Hoff). Article

Does Closing Inpatient Beds in One Public Mental Health System Result in Increased Use of Hospital Services in Other Systems? Mental Health Services Research  2: 4  183-189 December 2000 (Rosenheck, Banks, Pandiani) Article

Elevated Risk of Being Charged with a Crime for People with a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness. Justice Research and Policy  2:  19-36  Fall 2000 (Pandiani, Banks, Clements, and Schacht) Article

Utilization of Local Jails and General Hospitals by State Psychiatric Center Patients. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research,  27: 454-459 November 2000 (Banks, Stone, Pandiani, Cox, and Morchauser) Article

Age and Mortality Among Problem Drinkers. Addiction, 95: 1249-1254, August 2000 (Banks, Pandiani, Schacht, and Gauvin)  Article

Caseload Segregation/Integration: A Measure of Shared Responsibility for Children and Adolescents. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 7: 66-71 Summer 1999 (Banks, Pandiani, and Schacht)  Article

Using Incarceration Rates to Measure Mental Health Program Performance. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 25: 300-311  August 1998 (Pandiani, Banks, and Schacht) Article

A Risk Adjusted Measure of Hospitalization Rates for Evaluating Community Mental Health Program Performance. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 26: 269-279  March, 1999 (Pandiani, Banks, Schacht, and Gauvin) Article

A Methodology for Probabilistically Estimating Caseload Size and Overlap. The Evaluation Center @HSRI. January 1999 (Banks and Pandiani) Article

Personal Privacy vs. Public Accountability: A Technological Solution to an Ethical Dilemma. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research  25: 456-463  November 1998. (Pandiani, Banks, and Schacht) Article

Practice Patterns and Hospitalization Rates: A Statewide Program Evaluation. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 26: 33-44, September 1998 (Banks, Pandiani, Gauvin, Reardon, Schacht, and Zovistoski) Article

The Use of State and General Hospitals for Inpatient Psychiatric Care. American Journal of Public Health, 88: 448-451  March 1998 (Banks and Pandiani) Article

A Global Measure of Access to Mental Health Services for a Managed Care Environment. Journal of Mental Health Administration 24: 268-277 Summer 1997 (Pandiani, Banks, and Gauvin) Article


           

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