Sharing Patients

Sharing Patients: Promoting the Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Care

  1st Annual Sharing Patients Conference - September 22, 2005
Meeting Agenda  9/22/05

Dr. David Katzelnick  is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison and a distinguished scientist at the Madison Institute of Medicine. He is co-chair of the National Depression Leadership Initiative, whose purpose it is to improve the availability and quality of depression care for primary care and psychiatry through the standardized use of the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression).

 

Dr. David Katzelnick's Presentation 9/22/05 & 1/17/06

Recommended Reading:
Applying Depression-Specific Change Concepts in a Collaborative Breakthrough Series (available for purchase)
Overview of the Chronic Care Model  
The Chronic Care Model  
Quality Improvement in Chronic Illness Care: A Collaborative Approach  
Psychiatry, Primary Care Unite to Improve Depression Care  
Chronic Disease Management: What Will it Take to Improve Care for Chronic Illness?
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (for purchase)

 

Dr. Roger Kathol i s the founder and president of Cartesian Solutions innovative board certified internist, psychiatrist, and physician executive with 30 years experience in the integration of general medical and behavioral health care. He has international expertise in the development and operation of cross-disciplinary programs and services for clinics and hospitals; health plans; software vendors; case, disease, and disability management organizations; employee assistance programs; and employers. Dr. Kathol served on the Agency for Health care Policy and Research Depression Guidelines Panel and was Chairman of the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health care Organizations Task force on Depression Indicators.

Recommended Reading:
MPS Integration Initiative  
General Medical and Behavioral Health Integration  
Summary of MPS Integrated Care Initiative  
General Medical and Pharmacy Claims Expenditures in Users in Behavioral Health Services  

Mental Health America of Wisconsin Recommends:
Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and Systems Strategies  
The 2004 Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Service Issues  
Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health: Report on a Roundtable Discussion of Strategies for Private Health Insurance  
Fact Sheet and Resource Guide: Mental Health Integration into Primary Care Settings, August, 2005  
Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Opportunities and Challenges for State Mental Health Authorities  
The MacArthur Initiative on Depression & Primary Care at Dartmouth & Duke: Depression Management Tool Kit  
Rethinking the place of the psych in health: toward the integration of health care systems
Download a comprehensive list of resources here .

Next Steps - Strategic Planning Meeting -  January 17, 2006  
The goal of the strategic meeting on January 17, 2006 was to develop an action plan based on the recommendations from the Sharing Patients meeting on September 22, 2005.  Below please find the materials that were distributed at the Strategic Planning Meeting.

Agenda 1/17/06

Dr. David Katzelnick's Presentation, 1/17/06

Presentations
Implementing Depression Care Management in Real World Settings, a presentation by Mary Olen

Patient Self Management, a presentation by Julie Schuller, MD, MPH; Holly Nannis, BSN, RN; and Gabriela Dieguez, APSW from Sixteenth Street Community Health Center

Tools
MacArthur Initiative
Chronic Care Model Overview
PHQ-9 & PHQ-9 Agreement  

Additional Resources
Psychiatric Problems of Youth in Primary Care: A review
Fact Sheet and Resource Guide: Mental Health Integration into Primary Care Settings
Depression in Primary Care: linking clinical and systems strategies
Managing medical and psychiatric comorbidities

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