Email UpdatesBehavioral Health Integration Compendium
This compendium provides tools and resources for clinicians, staff, and organizations working to implement behavioral health integration in practices to deliver person-centered care.
Quality Improvement and Implementation Science
those that include improvement models, frameworks, and related tools to help promote quality improvement in primary care settings, these materials are not specific to UAU primary care services delivery.
Barriers to Recruiting Primary Care Practices for Implementation Research During COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Practice Coaches from the Stop Unhealthy (STUN) Alcohol Use Now Trial
Presents barriers and facilitators to conducting implementation research, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, within the context of recruiting practices for North Carolina's STop UNhealthy (STUN) Alcohol Use Now trial
Applying Lessons from Behavioral Health Integration to Social Care Integration in Primary Care
Recommendations for successful primary care and behavioral health integration for improving delivery of care including use of screening tools and team-based care
AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules
These are interactive training modules, each 20-30 minutes long, which provide practice facilitators opportunities to gain critical skills. They include videos of experienced practice facilitators who share insights and helpful hints.
Workshop on Implementation Science and Digital Therapeutics for Behavioral Health
Summary of a workshop through the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College that focuses on implementation strategies and digital approaches to address substance use and other behavioral health topics
Using Continuous Quality Improvement to Design and Implement a Telepsychiatry Program in Rural Illinois
Examines a multisite, multimodal telepsychiatry program that has been providing direct care, synchronous consultation, and asynchronous consultation services in rural Illinois since 2016
The Value of Integrated Behavioral Health
Customizable slide deck for communicating the value of primary care and behavioral health integration to health care providers, organizational leadership, and policymakers to help garner buy-in for implementation
The Use of External Change Agents to Promote Quality Improvement and Organizational Change in Healthcare Organizations: A Systematic Review
Demonstrates that academic detailing can be helpful, but that practice facilitation with tailored follow up is more effective for successful organizational change compared to academic detailing alone
The STUN (STop UNhealthy) Alcohol Use Now Trial: Study Protocol for an Adaptive Randomized Trial on Dissemination and Implementation of Screening and Management of Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care
Describes the study protocol for an AHRQ grantee's unhealthy alcohol use intervention and evaluation that includes practice facilitation, quality improvement coaching, electronic health record support, training, and expert consultation
The Practice Facilitation Handbook
Assists in training new practice facilitators, intended to equip them with the knowledge needed to support meaningful improvement in primary care