Behavioral healthcare providers are eager to create industry-wide core performance measures.
Individual facilities collect voluminous data within their own organizations.
However, a pilot test of key benchmarking indicators found that substantial challenges remain in gathering, reporting, and comparing data across systems. More importantly, the participants in this 2000 pilot test demonstrated their willingness to share this critical data. Commentary is provided on each of the indicators in the pilot test. Allocation of limited resources needs to be directed to the collection of the most important data. In this pilot test, there was great variation in the definitions of restraint and seclusion, particularly as they relate to children and adolescents .