TY - JOUR
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/methods
KW - Humans
KW - Learning
KW - Mental Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Models, Organizational
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Quality Improvement/organization & administration
KW - Community of practice
KW - Integration of behavioral health and primary care
KW - Learning collaborative
KW - Quality Improvement
AU - M. Okafor
AU - V. Ede
AU - R. Kinuthia
AU - D. Satcher
A1 - 
AB - In an effort to tackle fragmented care in the US healthcare delivery system, we explored the use of learning collaborative (LC) to advance integration of behavioral health and primary care as one of the potential solutions to a holistic approach to the delivery of quality healthcare to individuals with physical and mental illness. How a diverse group of primary care and behavioral health providers formed a Community of Practice (CoP) with a common purpose and shared vision to advance integrated care using a LC approach is described. An account of their learning experience, key components of their quality improvement, practice changes, clinical processes, and improved outcomes are explained. This paper aims at describing the history, creative design, processes, roles of the CoP and impact of the LC on the advancement of integrated care practice and quality improvements for further exploration and replications.
AD - Yale University School of Nursing, New Heaven, CT, USA.; Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT, USA.; Division of Behavioral Health, The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA.; Division of Behavioral Health, The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA. vede@msm.edu.; Division of Behavioral Health, The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA.; Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.; The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA.
BT - Community mental health journal
C5 - General Literature
CP - 8
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s10597-017-0230-8
IS - 8
JF - Community mental health journal
M1 - Journal Article
N2 - In an effort to tackle fragmented care in the US healthcare delivery system, we explored the use of learning collaborative (LC) to advance integration of behavioral health and primary care as one of the potential solutions to a holistic approach to the delivery of quality healthcare to individuals with physical and mental illness. How a diverse group of primary care and behavioral health providers formed a Community of Practice (CoP) with a common purpose and shared vision to advance integrated care using a LC approach is described. An account of their learning experience, key components of their quality improvement, practice changes, clinical processes, and improved outcomes are explained. This paper aims at describing the history, creative design, processes, roles of the CoP and impact of the LC on the advancement of integrated care practice and quality improvements for further exploration and replications.
PP - United States
PY - 2018
SN - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
SP - 1109
EP - 1115
EP - 
T1 - Explication of a Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Learning Collaborative and Its Quality Improvement Implications
T2 - Community mental health journal
TI - Explication of a Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Learning Collaborative and Its Quality Improvement Implications
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 29327162
U3 - 10.1007/s10597-017-0230-8
VL - 54
VO - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
Y1 - 2018
Y2 - Nov
ER -