The mental health and addictions quality initiative: Collaboration in public reporting and quality improvement

Provincial and national initiatives to measure healthcare performance have primarily focused on general hospital care, with little or no attention paid to developing indicators appropriate for specialized mental health services. Officially launched in 2011, a key objective of the Mental Health and Addictions Quality Initiative is to improve the quality of care through collaboration and transparency. Standardized mental health and addictions indicators reflective of hospital accountability and accessible to the public were developed and are currently compared among 15 hospitals.