TY  - GEN
N2  - The purpose of this quality improvement project was to re-align the standard of psychiatric care with best practices for nine clients with co-occurring mental illness and intellectual disability (ID) in an Oregon community mental health center. For three months, a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who specialized in Developmental Disability Psychiatry sought to decrease same-class polypharmacy, and benzodiazepine use. A standardized tool, the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC), was used to assess impact of medication changes on behavior problems. Caregivers answered a question comparing the attentiveness of the specialized PMHNP compared to the attentiveness of previous psychiatric providers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and 1-sample t-tests.  
DO  - 10.6083/m45m658h
DO  - DOI
AB  - The purpose of this quality improvement project was to re-align the standard of psychiatric care with best practices for nine clients with co-occurring mental illness and intellectual disability (ID) in an Oregon community mental health center. For three months, a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who specialized in Developmental Disability Psychiatry sought to decrease same-class polypharmacy, and benzodiazepine use. A standardized tool, the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC), was used to assess impact of medication changes on behavior problems. Caregivers answered a question comparing the attentiveness of the specialized PMHNP compared to the attentiveness of previous psychiatric providers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and 1-sample t-tests.  
AD  - Oregon Health and Science University
T1  - Adults with intellectual disability and mental illness: tracking and improving the standard of care
DA  - 2017
AU  - Deisenroth, Lauren K.
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7619/files/Deisenroth.Lauren.2017.pdf
PB  - Oregon Health and Science University
PY  - 2017
ID  - 7619
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7619/files/Deisenroth.Lauren.2017.pdf
KW  - Quality Improvement 
TI  - Adults with intellectual disability and mental illness: tracking and improving the standard of care
Y1  - 2017
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7619/files/Deisenroth.Lauren.2017.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7619/files/Deisenroth.Lauren.2017.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7619/files/Deisenroth.Lauren.2017.pdf
ER  -