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Measurement-based care in behavioural health: What exactly is it and will it be important in 2024?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Measurement-based care (MBC) is a rapidly growing approach in behavioural health that involves systematically tracking a patient's symptoms and progress over time using standardized tools to inform treatment decisions and improve outcomes. Think of it like taking the temperature of your mental health.

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A Romanticised History of SPM

Society for Participatory Medicine

“Doc Tom” Ferguson (Wikipedia) envisioned health care as an equal partnership between e-patients and health professionals and systems that support them. A true visionary, less than a year after the Mozilla browser arrived he published a pair of slides that showed how “information age healthcare” would turn medicine on its head.