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Can I read Understanding Team-based Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care on EtoBox?
Understanding Team-based Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care by Lisa V. Rubenstein; Louise E. Parker; Lisa S. Meredith; Andrea Altschuler; Emmeline DePillis; John Hernandez; Nancy P. Gordon is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Understanding Team-based Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care about?
**Objective.** To assess the impacts of the characteristics of quality improvement (QI) teams and their environments on team success in designing and implementing highquality, enduring depression care improvement programs in primary care (PC) practices. **Study Setting/Data Sources.** Two nonprofit managed care organizations sponsored five QI teams tasked with improving care for depression in large PC practices. Data on characteristics of the teams and their environments is from observer process notes, national expert ratings, administrative data, and interviews. **Study Design.** Comparative formative evaluation of the quality and duration of implementation of the depression improvement programs developed by Central Teams (CTs) emphasizing expert design and Local Teams (LTs) emphasizing participatory local clinician design, and of the effects of additional team and environmental factors oneach type of team. Both types of teams depended upon local clinicians for implementation. **Principal Findings.** The CT intervention program designs were more evidence‐based than those of LTs. Expert team leadership, support from local practice management, and support from local mental health sp
Who reads Understanding Team-based Quality Improvement for Depression in Primary Care?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Health Professions.
- Author
- Lisa V. Rubenstein; Louise E. Parker; Lisa S. Meredith; Andrea Altschuler; Emmeline DePillis; John Hernandez; Nancy P. Gordon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0017-9124)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Health Professions (Health Sciences)