Collaborative Care

Collaborative Care is a healthcare philosophy and movement that has many names, models, and definitions that often includes the provision of mental health, behavioral health and substance use services in primary care. Similar ideas include: Integrated care, Primary Care Behavioral Health, Integrated care systems, and shared care. In order to render care to client joint force are needed to improve the quality of life of the clients.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published an overview of many different models and the research that supports them.[1] The key features of Collaborative Care models are:

There are organisations in many countries promoting these ideas such as the American Collaborative Family Healthcare Association.

See also

Integrated care

References
  1. Butler M, Kane RL, McAlpine D, Kathol, RG, Fu SS, Hagedorn H, Wilt TJ. Integration of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and Primary Care No. 173 (Prepared by the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0009.) AHRQ Publication No. 09-E003. Rockville, MD. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. October 2008.


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