USH patients' mental illnesses will stabilize so they can successfully live in the community.
Average CGI-I score at discharge demonstrates a significant clinical improvement
Current Value
2.13
Definition
Measure Definition
The Clinical Global Impression-Improvement (CGI-I) score is a rating on a seven-point scale that psychiatrists use to assess how much a patient's illness has improved since the start of treatment. The scale is:
- Very much improved
- Much improved
- Minimally improved
- No change
- Minimally worse
- Much worse
- Very much worse
The score reported represents the average of all patients discharged during the month.
Story Behind the Curve
The data show that most patients who discharge from the state hospital are either minimally improved or much improved since the start of treatment. Due to the chronic nature of most patients' illness, this is to be expected. Younger patients tend to be more likely to be very much improved at discharge, while those scoring between 4 and 7 usually have a progressive cognitive disorder such as dementia that makes improvement difficult or unlikely prior to discharge.
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