These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [PGI-I (patient's global impression) as an outcome and quality indicator of psychiatric in-patient treatment: results and concordance with doctor's assessments].
    Author: Steinert T, Eisele F, Längle G, Albani C, Flammer E, Borbé R.
    Journal: Psychiatr Prax; 2010 Oct; 37(7):343-9. PubMed ID: 20703981.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To examine the Patient Global Impression Scale of Improvement (PGI) as a quality indicator in routine psychiatric in-patient treatment and to determine its concordance with doctors' assessments. METHODS: Patients treated in 2007 in 5 hospitals and 4 day-clinics were included. A set of patient and treatment characteristics (German BADO) and CGI scales were recorded in all patients. Patients were required to give a PGI rating at discharge. RESULTS: PGI ratings could be obtained in 70.3 of the patients (N = 3957). PGI and doctors' CGI-I ratings were in agreement with no more than one degree of difference on the 7-point scale of the PGI in 89.8 %. Characteristics of those patients who significantly deviated from the doctors' assessments were determined. CONCLUSIONS: The PGI scale is appropriate as a quality indicator for routine clinical treatment which can rather easily be obtained.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]