STABLE Performance Measures

The STABLE Performance Measures consist of 15 evidence-based measures for quality assessment and improvement of care for bipolar disorder.  You can download a brief STABLE Measures Summary or detailed STABLE Measures Specifications for all 15 measures.  Or click on the links below to go to information about individual measures.

Measures Table of Contents

• Screening for bipolar mania/hypomania*
• Assessment for risk of suicide*
• Assessment for substance use*
• Use of antimanic agent in bipolar I disorder: manic phase
• Use of mood stabilizing or antimanic agent in bipolar I disorder: depressed phase
• Avoidance of antidepressant monotherapy in bipolar I disorder
• Monitoring weight
• Monitoring for extrapyradmidal symptoms
• Monitoring lithium serum levels
• Screening for hyperglycemia when atypical antipsychotic prescribed*
• Screening for hyperlipidemia when atypical antipsychotic prescribed
• Providing condition-specific education/information
• Monitoring change in symptom complex
• Recommending adjunctive psychosocial interventions
• Monitoring change in level-of-functioning*

*Measure endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF) in December 2006
NQF is a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.