TY - JOUR
KW - Ambulatory Care Facilities
KW - Anxiety/therapy
KW - Behavioral Medicine
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
KW - Depression/therapy
KW - Humans
KW - Organizational Case Studies
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Washington
AU - P. M. McGough
AU - A. M. Bauer
AU - L. Collins
AU - D. C. Dugdale
A1 - 
AB - Depression is one of the more common diagnoses encountered in primary care, and primary care in turn provides the majority of care for patients with depression. Many approaches have been tried in efforts to improve the outcomes of depression management. This article outlines the partnership between the University of Washington (UW) Neighborhood Clinics and the UW Department of Psychiatry in implementing a collaborative care approach to integrating the management of anxiety and depression in the ambulatory primary care setting. This program was built on the chronic care model, which utilizes a team approach to caring for the patient. In addition to the patient and the primary care provider (PCP), the team included a medical social worker (MSW) as care manager and a psychiatrist as team consultant. The MSW would manage a registry of patients with depression at a clinic with several PCPs, contacting the patients on a regular basis to assess their status, and consulting with the psychiatrist on a weekly basis to discuss patients who were not achieving the goals of care. Any recommendation (eg, a change in medication dose or class) made by the psychiatrist was communicated to the PCP, who in turn would work with the patient on the new recommendation. This collaborative care approach resulted in a significant improvement in the number of patients who achieved care plan goals. The authors believe this is an effective method for health systems to integrate mental health services into primary care. (Population Health Management 2016;19:81-87).
BT - Population health management
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 2
CY - United States
DO - 10.1089/pop.2015.0039
IS - 2
JF - Population health management
N2 - Depression is one of the more common diagnoses encountered in primary care, and primary care in turn provides the majority of care for patients with depression. Many approaches have been tried in efforts to improve the outcomes of depression management. This article outlines the partnership between the University of Washington (UW) Neighborhood Clinics and the UW Department of Psychiatry in implementing a collaborative care approach to integrating the management of anxiety and depression in the ambulatory primary care setting. This program was built on the chronic care model, which utilizes a team approach to caring for the patient. In addition to the patient and the primary care provider (PCP), the team included a medical social worker (MSW) as care manager and a psychiatrist as team consultant. The MSW would manage a registry of patients with depression at a clinic with several PCPs, contacting the patients on a regular basis to assess their status, and consulting with the psychiatrist on a weekly basis to discuss patients who were not achieving the goals of care. Any recommendation (eg, a change in medication dose or class) made by the psychiatrist was communicated to the PCP, who in turn would work with the patient on the new recommendation. This collaborative care approach resulted in a significant improvement in the number of patients who achieved care plan goals. The authors believe this is an effective method for health systems to integrate mental health services into primary care. (Population Health Management 2016;19:81-87).
PP - United States
PY - 2016
SN - 1942-7905; 1942-7891
SP - 81
EP - 87
EP - 
T1 - Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care
T2 - Population health management
TI - Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 26348355
U3 - 10.1089/pop.2015.0039
VL - 19
VO - 1942-7905; 1942-7891
Y1 - 2016
ER -