Objective: To measure the overall level of adherence to clinical guidelines with a set of cross-diagnostic process indicators in a randomly selected sample of outpatients who started an acute phase treatment for a common mental disorder in a routine clinical setting.
Setting And Participants: We developed a generic set of quality measures to asses the implementation of guidelines in daily practice. This set was tested in a retrospective cohort study in a randomly selected sample of 300 outpatients who started an acute phase psychiatric treatment for various psychiatric disorders.