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Using an Automated Data System for Planning and Delivery of Services

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.25.2.83

The author believes a computerized data system can be a valuable tool in establishing some of the basic knowledge now lacking about diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill. He describes the goals of the Missouri automated Standard System of Psychiatry, the clinical instruments that have been incorporated into the system, and how the accumulated data can be used to plan for patient care and to facilitate delivery of useful and effective services.

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