Barbara Dickey

Biographic Data

ID3887507
NAMEBarbara Dickey
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMEDickey
SIGNATUREDICKEY B
AFFILIATIONSCambridge Health Alliance
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX1

  • Connectedness and Citizenship

    N C Ware, K Hopper et al.ARTICLEPsychiatric Services2007

    Despite decades of deinstitutionalization, individuals with psychiatric disabilities living outside the hospital may be described as in the community, but not of it. To effectively address the persisting problem of social exclusion of persons with psychiatric disabilities, new conceptual tools are needed. To address this need, a new definition of social integration is offered.The definition is based on data from a qualitative study. Data collecti…

  • Response to Letter from Dr. Alexander S. Young

    Barbara Dickey, Sharon‐Lise T Normand et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2007

    Dickey, Barbara PhD; Normand, Sharon-Lise PhD; Cleary, Paul PhD; Hermann, Richard MD, MS; Eisen, Sue PhD; Cortés, Dharma PhD; Ware, Norma PhD Author Information

  • Associations Between Adherence to Guidelines for Antipsychotic Dose and Health Status, Side Effects, and Patient Care Experiences

    Barbara Dickey, Sharon‐Lise T Normand et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2006References: 15

    BACKGROUND: One approach to improving quality of care is to encourage physicians to follow evidence-based practice guidelines. Examples of evidence-based guidelines are the PORT recommendations for the treatment of schizophrenia. However, few studies have examined the relationship between adherence to guidelines and patient outcomes in clinical settings. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to report the relationship between guideline adhere…

  • Ethnography and Measurement in Mental Health

    Open AccessN C Ware, Toni Tugenberg et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2003Cited by: 3References: 22

    Ethnography contributes to measure development by enhancing validity and providing a basis for qualitative validation. Validating research measures means making cases for their "trustworthiness." The authors argue for the trustworthiness of CONNECT, a measure of continuity of care, by presenting the interpretive logic through which they elaborated continuity for measure construction purposes. They used category construction methods to identify me…

  • Using Health Status Measures with the Seriously Mentally Ill in Health Services Research

    Barbara Dickey, Hendrik Wagenaar et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996References: 4

    Changes in the delivery of mental health care have prompted interest in using generic health status measures to test the effect of system change on those receiving treatment. Of special concern are those with serious and persistent mental illness who may be neglected when cost containment efforts reduce the availability of treatment services. This population may be affected by these changes, which might go undetected if investigators use scales t…

  • Mental Health Cost Models; Refinements and Applications

    Barbara Dickey, Thomas G Mcguire et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1986

    This paper describes a 2-year study whose goal was to refine Burton Weisbrod's cost model for public programs for the chronically mentally ill. The authors made comprehensive cost assessments of all the resources, including treatment programs, used by a small sample of severely disturbed chronically ill patients. Refinement of the model included a method to assess capital costs of public facilities. The use of disaggregated patient information pe…

  • Effective Problem-Solving for Evaluation Utilization

    Open AccessBarbara Dickey, Eber HamptonARTICLEKnowledge1981Cited by: 1