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Maragakis, A., Nolan, J., & Lindeman, S. (2017). Adding a functional utility score to the evaluation of behavioral health screens in integrated care settings: What’s all the FUS about? Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 6(2), 226–229.
Maragakis, Nolan, and Lindeman (2017) describe the importance of understanding how care systems operate before implementing mental health screening in primary care. They discuss that the traditional emphasis on psychometrics as the main determinate for a mental health screener's acceptability in medical settings fails to account for how the healthcare systems are unique and substantially different medical settings. They provide recommendations on improving the evaluation of mental health screens when determining whether or not they would be appropriate for a particular system.

Chiauzzi, E. (2020). Lessons learned in measurement-based care with youth mental health clients. Practice Innovations.
Chiauzzi (2020) discusses the use of measurement-based care with adolescents. This article addresses potential barriers and misunderstandings of implementing measurement-based care within adolescent care. The article reviews the evidence of important measurement-based outcomes (e.g., client-centered outcomes) and its implication on clinical outcomes.

Barbalat, G., Bergh, D., & Kossakowski, J. J. (2019). Outcome measurement in mental health services: Insights from symptom networks. BMC Psychiatry, 19.
Barbalat, Bergh, and Kossakowski (2019) investigate how assessing clinical outcomes from individual symptom scores, or a network analysis may result in different outcomes. Their rationale for investigating outcomes via network analysis is because individual symptoms and other external factors may yield different information when assessed collectively. They conclude that assessing clinical outcomes via individual scores or symptom network analysis produces very different results. This provides evidence that the synthesis of various data sources may augment your current measurement of clinical outcomes.

Douglas, S., Jensen-Doss, A., Ordorica, C., & Comer, J. S. (2020). Strategies to enhance communication with telemental health measurement-based care (tMBC). Practice Innovations, 5(2), 143–149.
Douglas and colleagues examine the use of measurement-based care with telemental health. Specifically, they summarize the current evidence for measurement-based care in telemental health and provide recommendations on effectively creating systems that capture important outcomes like the use of evidence-based practices. Given the increased adoption and utilization of telemental health services, it is important for managers to navigate around unique barriers to this treatment modality effectively.