Association of Integrated Mental Health Services with Physical Health Quality Among VA Primary Care Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Integrated care for comorbid depression and chronic medical disease improved physical and mental health outcomes in randomized controlled trials. The Veterans Health Administration (VA) implemented Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) across all primary care clinics nationally to increase access to mental/behavioral health treatment, alongside physical health management.

Objective

To examine whether widespread, pragmatic PC-MHI implementation was associated with improved care quality for chronic medical diseases.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study included 828,050 primary care patients with at least one quality metric among 396 VA clinics providing PC-MHI services between October 2013 and September 2016.

Main mea

SUBMITTER: Leung LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9550947 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature