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Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports 11/2014

Open Access 01-11-2014 | Complex Medical-Psychiatric Issues (MB Riba, Section Editor)

Collaborative Care: Models for Treatment of Patients with Complex Medical-Psychiatric Conditions

Authors: Gabriel O. Ivbijaro, Yaccub Enum, Anwar Ali Khan, Simon Sai-Kei Lam, Andrei Gabzdyl

Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports | Issue 11/2014

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Abstract

Patients with co-morbidity and multi-morbidity have worse outcomes and greater healthcare needs. Co-morbid depression and other long-term conditions present health services with challenges in delivering effective care for patients. We provide some recent evidence from the literature to support the need for collaborative care, illustrated by practical examples of how to deliver a collaborative/integrated care continuum by presenting data collected between 2011 and 2012 from a London Borough clinical improvement programme that compared co-morbid diagnosis of depression and other long-term conditions and Accident and Emergency use. We have provided some practical steps for developing collaborative care within primary care and suggest that primary care family practices should adopt closer collaboration with other services in order to improve clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
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Metadata
Title
Collaborative Care: Models for Treatment of Patients with Complex Medical-Psychiatric Conditions
Authors
Gabriel O. Ivbijaro
Yaccub Enum
Anwar Ali Khan
Simon Sai-Kei Lam
Andrei Gabzdyl
Publication date
01-11-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports / Issue 11/2014
Print ISSN: 1523-3812
Electronic ISSN: 1535-1645
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-014-0506-4

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