Gaining consensus on clinical quality outcomes for eating disorders: Framework for the development of an Australian national minimum dataset.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Eating disorders (EDs) are complex psychiatric illnesses requiring multidisciplinary care across both mental and medical healthcare settings. Currently, no nationally comprehensive, consistent, agreed on or mandated data set or data collection strategy exists for EDs in Australia: thus, little is known about the outcomes of care nor treatment pathways taken by individuals with EDs. InsideOut Institute was contracted by the Australian Government Department of Health to develop a minimum dataset (MDS) for the illness group with consideration given to data capture mechanisms and the scoping of a national registry.

Design

A four-step modified Delphi methodology was used, including national consultations followed by three rounds of quantitative feedback by an expert pa

SUBMITTER: Bryant E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124290 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature