Transforming Population-Based Depression Care: a Quality Improvement Initiative Using Remote, Centralized Care Management.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the growing prevalence of value-based contracts, health systems are incentivized to consider population approaches to service delivery, particularly for chronic conditions like depression. To this end, UW Medicine implemented the Depression-Population Approach to Health (PATH) program in primary care (PC) as part of a system-wide Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) quality improvement (QI) initiative.

Aim

To examine the feasibility of a pilot PATH program and its impact on clinical and process-of-care outcomes.

Setting

A large, diverse, geographically disparate academic health system in Western Washington State including 28 PC clinics across five networks.

Program description

The PATH program was a population-level, centralized,

SUBMITTER: Chang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878605 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature