Key Personnel:
Timothy L. Boaz, Ph.D.
Keith Vossberg, B.A.
State mental hospital continuity of care study: Preliminary report
Publication Date: 3/30/2001
Description:
This study reports on the analysis of several existing administrative data sets to examine issues related to the continuity of care in the community for persons discharged from the Florida state mental health hospitals. The validity of conclusions based on such analysis is dependent on the adequacy of the existing data. While certain types of reporting errors can be identified and remediated (to a degree), other types of errors, particularly omission of reporting, often cannot be identified or remediated. Thus, the conclusions of this report need to be taken somewhat tentatively.
