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NRI engages in several research arenas each year. This section of the web site will be used to bring you the latest information on these research activities.
Core Measures for Hospital Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services
NRI continues to collaborate with National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS), American Psychological Association (APA), and the Joint Commission in the development of a set of measures that could be used across all inpatient psychiatric settings. Test implementation began in January 2007. NRI developed specifications to enable facilities to participate in the test phase using the Behavioral Healthcare Performance Measurement System (BHPMS). Almost 200 sites are participating in the test phase, 45 of these sites use the NRI system. Evaluation of the test phase has begun and is expected to continue into early 2008.
Transformation
Following the President's Commission Report on the current status of the mental health system, national, state, and local activities were initiated to transform the framework and mechanisms to provide public mental health services. The federal Center for Mental Health Services has funded nine states' efforts to transform their state organization and processes for providing recovery-oriented services. In addition to the paper, Concepts of Transformation, available via the publications link on the NRI web site, the NRI will collaborate with The Evaluation Center @ HSRI to evaluate the outcomes of the nine state initiatives.
Science and Service
For the past several years, dialogue among the NRI, NASMHPD, and the National Institute of Mental Health has focused on the need to develop strategies and actively promulgate both science-to-service and service-to-science. This need arises from the significant financial and human investments that both NIMH and the states have made in supporting and promulgating research, coupled with their desire to inform policy via an exchange of information that brings research results to the states and through state staff informing researchers of public system research needs and interests. Throughout the coming year, the NRI and NIMH will build a mutually beneficial relationship predicated upon establishing effective vehicles by which (a) user-friendly information about completed and ongoing research conducted by NIMH-funded clinical and service systems researchers can be received and effectively inculcated in the public mental health system, and (b) state perspectives can be shared with NIMH and senior researchers.
Specific products resulting from this new relationship will include presentations of NIMH-funded research at the NRI's annual conference, web casts, special publications, and exchanges of researchers and state mental health officials.
As they are become scheduled, specific events related to this initiative will be posted on the NRI's web site under conference and meetings.
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