For years, mental healthcare and primary care were independent of each other. If you visited a primary healthcare provider with mental illness symptoms, they'd refer you to a mental healthcare ...

—Usual care, colocation, or collaborative care? That was the question raised by a team of New York-based experts, who tracked healthcare resource utilization patterns as well as cost estimates for ...

Modest spending on integrated mental health services in primary care, facilitated by use of new collaborative care billing codes, did not increase overall health care costs. Objectives: The ...

Existing conventional treatments and the current model of care do not adequately address the complex challenges of mental illness Available conventional treatments and the dominant model of mental ...

The authors drafted a “Shared Values of Collaborative Care” document with fundamental principles to make better group decisions in implementing collaborative care. We established core principles of ...

Advocates of a decades-old model that integrates mental health care into primary care say expanded access through the team-based system could save 14,000 lives annually. However, less than 1% of the ...

Researchers explore the impact of virtual collaborative care on mental health and quality of life for breast cancer patients, revealing significant improvements.