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Know the Big Picture

With Measurely, it’s easy to monitor overall treatment outcomes for your practice. You can analyse outcomes for patients based on characteristics like their age group, gender, or cohort. Or you can explore outcomes related to a specific practitioner, outcome measure, or psychological issue (e.g. Depression).

When you investigate a type of treatment outcome (e.g. clinically significant improvement) and apply your filters, Measurely uses plain English to indicate the number and percentage of patients who have achieved that outcome. You can quickly identify who these individuals are.

Additionally, it’s possible to calculate the average score change from the beginning to the end of therapy—across all patients or for specific groups. This data will aid in understanding the typical degree of symptom improvement that most patients experience during treatment.

Know Where Your Practice Stands Clinically—Not Just Administratively

Every business needs to comprehend the big picture, which involves collecting data on key outcomes for future planning. It’s no different for mental health treatment settings. They have invested money, time, and expertise into helping their patients and need to ensure that everything is progressing as expected.

Are team members more effective with one type of problem than another? Is there a specific patient group that tends to discontinue therapy prematurely? Answering these questions facilitates the selection of the right focus for continuing professional development (CPD) activities and supervision.

Practice management software excels at keeping things organised but often fails to provide insights into the clinical state of affairs within your practice. Measurely bridges this gap by catering to the needs of busy mental health professionals who seek to understand their treatment outcomes but lack the necessary resources and time. Measurely offers valuable data that brings clarity and direction to your practice, ensuring that you recognise the value delivered to your patients. Additionally, this data can boost your marketing efforts by highlighting your expertise in specific areas.

Easy Feedback

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Understanding Context In Mental Health Assessment: Going Beyond The Numbers

We know that standardised assessment results are only part of the picture. They can’t explain what’s really going on in the lives of our patients.

That’s why patients need the opportunity to share significant life events and updates with their therapist. The information they provide helps to make sense of quantitative assessment data.

Perhaps a patient has recently experienced a breakup or lost a loved one? Such information helps to explain why mood scores might be a little abnormal this week.

Feedback is essential for contextualising symptom severity scores, diagnosis or red flags that show up on assessments.

Collecting Feedback Doesn’t Need to be Awkward

Therapists are often afraid to ask patients directly about their experience of therapy. It’s understandable that we may hesitate to invite comments that could trigger self-doubt. And so all too often, we tend to skip these questions altogether.

It can also be tough for many patients to offer verbal feedback about therapy without any mechanism, scaffolding or prompting to do so. They may be concerned about hurting the therapist’s feelings or else appearing mean or demanding.

Sometimes, the information patients need to provide isn’t about therapy, but about significant events that occur in between appointments—such as medication changes, medical episodes and major life events. Time is lost or details missed when patients are required to give a lengthy update at the beginning of a session.

Easy Feedback Collection with Measurely

Measurely helps bypass all of the obstacles that prevent patients from providing important updates and feedback.

Each time they complete an assessment, they’re prompted to provide comments and feedback on significant updates, their current well-being, and their experience with therapy so far..

This information shows up immediately in the Measurely dashboard for the clinician to review before next session.

Risk Tracking

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Building Safety Into Mental Health Assessment

Managing suicide risk can be stressful, especially for mental health professionals handling large caseloads or complex patients.

It’s crucial to establish suitable practices for assessing and managing the risk of suicide—especially given the increased prevalence of suicidality over the past 10 years.

While directly asking about suicide risk is vital, Measurely supports you by identifying unusual or extreme patient responses to assessment questions. These responses may indicate current self-harm, suicidal ideation, or thoughts of harming others.

Whenever Measurely identifies a ‘red flag’ item response, it ensures that you are notified immediately, and in an obvious manner.

Red flags show up centrally within the Dashboard, and also appear as red badges for you to examine when reviewing your patient’s assessment.

Smart Tagging

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Scientific Scoring & Interpretation of Mental Health Assessments

With Measurely, it’s like you have a psychometrics expert interpreting assessment results for you.

Scoring is managed automatically, adhering to the best practices for each specific instrument.

Appropriate severity range labels help you easily understand the clinical significance of your patient’s symptoms (e.g. ‘mild’, ‘severe etc.).

Percentiles allow you to contrast your patient’s scores with those typically found in a healthy or clinical sample.

Provisional diagnoses are suggested when a patient’s score surpasses a set threshold, indicating the probable existence of a disorder. Further assessment may be warranted in these instances.

Smart Tags To Simplify Score Interpretation

Measurely uses a color-coded ‘smart’ tagging system for quick interpretation of scores.

Typically, darker colours represent more severe symptoms and are accompanied by corresponding severity labels such as “Mild”, “Severe”, and so on.

The aim here is user-friendliness—not just scientific rigour.

Master Missing Assessments

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Never Forget Follow-Up Assessments Again

When you’re a busy mental health professional with many patients, it can be tough to stay on top of follow-up assessments. That’s because we’re only capable of holding a number of items in working memory. So it’s not surprising that we struggle to remember when we last assessed a patient, or which outcome measures were used. But we shouldn’t need to reopen each patient’s file to track which assessments they completed last and when. With Measurely, you don’t have to.

From one centralised location you can view which patients are due for follow-up assessment based on the time since they were last assessed. You can even send follow-up assessment assessments and reminders to your patients from the same place. This cuts down admin time considerably, and ensures you always stay on top of assessment compliance for your entire caseload.

What Happens When Follow-Up Assessments Are Forgotten?

Follow-Up assessments are crucial. Without them, both mental health professionals and patients can face undesirable consequences. These might include:

  • Premature termination of therapy by patients.
  • Missed opportunities to amplify referrals by sharing successful treatment outcomes.
  • Neglected warning signs.
  • Misreading of symptoms.
  • Shortcomings in clinical audits, particularly where routine Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are mandatory.
  • Absence of data on outcomes and trends within a practice.

In light of these potential challenges, Measurely provides specific features aiming to bolster compliance with outcome measures and routine evaluations.

Reduce Time Spent on Mental Health Assessments By Up to 80%

Research shows that electronically-administered outcome measures can dramatically reduce the burden of clinical admin on busy mental health professionals. Find out for yourself how much time you can save with a system designed for efficiency!

Saving Time & Preventing Overwhelm

  • The most valuable resource you have as a skilled mental health professional is your time.
  • It’s tiring to stay on top of routine assessment for all patients within your caseload.
  • You’re likely to miss follow-up assessments—or at the very least feel stressed and overwhelmed.
  • And that can affect the quality of care you provide.
  • So let us solve the problem of consistent mental health monitoring, while you take care of your patients and yourself!

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