Investigation of population-based mental health staffing and efficiency-based mental health productivity using an information-theoretic approach

• Matt Boden ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Matthew.Boden@va.govb

  Affiliations Program Evaluation and Resource Center, VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Menlo Park, California, United States of America, Center for Innovation to Implementation, VHA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-2518

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• Clifford A. Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clifford A. Smith, Jodie A. Trafton

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Jodie A. Trafton

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clifford A. Smith, Jodie A. Trafton

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program Evaluation and Resource Center, VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Menlo Park, California, United States of America, Center for Innovation to Implementation, VHA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California, United States of America

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