Fact Sheets for Your Patients and Additional Resources

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Improving Chronic Illness Care in a Private Practice
Primary care physicians are uniquely qualified to manage chronic diseases. The defining features of primary care - continuity, comprehensiveness and coordination - match the needs of chronically ill patients.^[1] Further, the large majority of the chronically ill (90 percent of patients with diabetes in the United States^[2]) currently receive the bulk of their care in primary care offices.

Treatment-Resistant Mania: When the Diagnosis is Right,But Treatment Fails CME/CE by Michael E. Thase, MD. Available through Medscape, afree subscription-based website.

Medscape: offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals with robust and integrated medical informationand education tools.

Texas Medication Algorithm Project: report of the Texas Consensus Conference Panel on Medication Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder.

Two New Books Cover Primary Care Integration and Hiring Consumers
The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare has published two books to support MHA and other local organization efforts related to healthcare integration and hiring mental health consumers. Raising the Bar: Moving Toward the Integration of Health Care, is a step-by-step guide to integrating mental health and substance abuse treatment into the primary care setting. The other book, Consumers in the Mental Health Workforce: A Handbook for Providers, provides direction on how local service organizations can recruit, manage, integrate and retain people as employees who are recovering from mental illnesses. The books cost $35 each for National Council members and $45 for non-members. Order from http://www.nccbh.org/ or call 301-984-6200.