Organizational cost of quality improvement for depression care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We documented organizational costs for depression care quality improvement (QI) to develop an evidence-based, Veterans Health Administration (VA) adapted depression care model for primary care practices that performed well for patients, was sustained over time, and could be spread nationally in VA.

Data sources and study setting

Project records and surveys from three multistate VA administrative regions and seven of their primary care practices.

Study design

Descriptive analysis.

Data collection

We documented project time commitments and expenses for 86 clinical QI and 42 technical expert support team participants for 4 years from initial contact through care model design, Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, and achievement of stable workloads in which models f

SUBMITTER: Liu CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2669623 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature