Stephen V Faraone, Michael J Silverstein, Kevin Antshel, Joseph Biederman, David W Goodman, Oren Mason, Andrew A Nierenberg, Anthony Rostain, Mark A Stein, Lenard A Adler
OBJECTIVE: Quality measures (QMs; also known as Quality Indicators) quantify health care processes, outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structure and/or systems that are relevant to the provision of high-quality health care. We describe the first phase of a project that has as its ultimate goal the creation and validation of QMs for tracking the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and clinical follow-up of adults with ADHD. This will fill an important gap in the field of Adult ADHD because QMs for adult ADHD do not exist...
December 4, 2018: Journal of Attention Disorders