Mclerran A E, Grinspoon L, Gudeman J E
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1979 Apr;30(4):243-7. doi: 10.1176/ps.30.4.243.
In a recent six-month period, a state-operated community mental health center was required to gather data for nine major surveys, reviews, and budget requests. Such surveys cover much the same ground, yet without any attempt to standardize formats so that the data a center compiles for one survey can be used in the next. The surveys frequently are not designed for the programs required to complete them; they are a drain on increasingly scarce staff time and deplete staff morale. A two-part solution to the problem would involve coordiantion and control of the demands for data, perhaps through the development of a model mental health data set and format by the National Institute of Mental Health, and the development of locally based, smaller-scale information systems. The latter step would generate more complete and reliable data for local clinicians and administrators and yield a limited amount of basic information to be used by outside agencies.
在最近的六个月里，一家国有社区心理健康中心被要求为九项主要调查、评估和预算申请收集数据。这些调查涵盖的内容大致相同，但却没有任何将格式标准化的尝试，以至于该中心为一项调查汇编的数据无法用于下一项调查。这些调查往往并非针对需要完成调查的项目设计；它们耗费了日益稀缺的员工时间，还削弱了员工士气。针对这个问题的两部分解决方案包括对数据需求进行协调和控制，或许可以通过美国国立精神卫生研究所开发一个心理健康数据集和格式模型来实现，以及开发基于当地的小规模信息系统。后一步将为当地临床医生和管理人员生成更完整、可靠的数据，并提供少量供外部机构使用的基本信息。
