TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Hospitals, Veterans
KW - Humans
KW - Internal Medicine/organization & administration
KW - Mental Disorders/diagnosis/therapy
KW - Mental Health Services/manpower/organization & administration
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
KW - Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/organization & administration
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - United States
KW - United States Department of Veterans Affairs
AU - B. L. Felker
AU - R. F. Barnes
AU - D. M. Greenberg
AU - E. F. Chaney
AU - M. M. Shores
AU - L. Gillespie-Gateley
AU - M. K. Buike
AU - C. E. Morton
A1 - 
AB - The effects of establishing a multidisciplinary mental health primary care team in a Veterans Affairs internal medicine primary care clinic were evaluated. The multidisciplinary team worked in collaboration with primary care providers to evaluate and treat their patients, who had a wide variety of psychiatric disorders, in the primary care clinic. In the first year of operation preliminary outcomes indicated that the rate of referrals to specialty mental health care dropped from 38 percent to 14 percent. The mean number of appointments with the team for evaluation and stabilization was 2.5. These outcomes suggest that a multidisciplinary mental health primary care team can rapidly evaluate and stabilize patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders, reduce the number of referrals to specialty mental health care, and improve collaborative care.
BT - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 4
CY - United States
IS - 4
JF - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
N2 - The effects of establishing a multidisciplinary mental health primary care team in a Veterans Affairs internal medicine primary care clinic were evaluated. The multidisciplinary team worked in collaboration with primary care providers to evaluate and treat their patients, who had a wide variety of psychiatric disorders, in the primary care clinic. In the first year of operation preliminary outcomes indicated that the rate of referrals to specialty mental health care dropped from 38 percent to 14 percent. The mean number of appointments with the team for evaluation and stabilization was 2.5. These outcomes suggest that a multidisciplinary mental health primary care team can rapidly evaluate and stabilize patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders, reduce the number of referrals to specialty mental health care, and improve collaborative care.
PP - United States
PY - 2004
SN - 1075-2730; 1075-2730
SP - 442
EP - 444
EP - 
T1 - Preliminary outcomes from an integrated mental health primary care team
T2 - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
TI - Preliminary outcomes from an integrated mental health primary care team
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 15067160
VL - 55
VO - 1075-2730; 1075-2730
Y1 - 2004
ER -