The Bristol Observatory

 

                         We measure treatment outcomes

                                    Using existing administrative data

                                              While protecting personal privacy

  


Methodology


Peer Reviewed Articles


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


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


 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


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)


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


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


Book Chapters


"Measuring Children's Systems of Care Using Anonymous Data Sets: Caseload Overlap, Service System Integration, And Number of Programs Per Person" (Pandiani, VanVleck and Banks) in Fisher, William  H. (Ed.) 2006 Research on Community-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents Research in Community and Mental Health, Volume 14, 117-136. Elsevier Ltd.


"Using Existing Databases to Measure Treatment Outcomes" (Banks, Pandiani) in Mario Hernandez & Sharon Hodges (Eds.) (2001)Developing Outcome Strategies in Children's Mental Health, p.p 203-217 by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.


Commentaries


Large Data Sets Are Powerful.  (Pandiani and Banks) Psychiatric Services  54: 746  Text


Enhancing the value of cancer registries and other data sources.  American Journal of Public Health  91: 157 (Banks and Pandiani)Text


Interpreting the Results of the CATIE Study (Pandiani and Banks) Psychiatric Services 57: 140-141, January 2006 Text


A Virtual MIS for Child and Adolescent Systems of Care. Data Matters: An Evaluation Newsletter.  Winter/Spring 2000.  Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health. (Pandiani) Newsletter