In this variable credit course, students will focus on articulating clinical outcomes for care management and on promoting optimal clinical outcomes. Students will learn methods of measuring clinical outcomes and will analyze issues associated with measuring outcomes that span service settings. Students will learn how to adapt the methods used by the Patient Outcome Research Teams for identifying optimal client outcomes with varying therapeutic interventions. Finally, students taking the course for three credits will learn methods of quality improvement in health care, including variance analysis, process improvement techniques, and how to work with multidisciplinary teams in continuous quality improvement.