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A Research Agenda to Advance the Coordination of Care for General Medical and Substance Use Disorders

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The separation of addiction care from the general medical care system has a negative impact on patients' receipt of high-quality medical care. Clinical and policy-level strategies to improve the coordination of addiction care and general medical care include identifying and engaging patients with unhealthy substance use in general medical settings, providing effective chronic disease management of substance use disorders in primary care, including patient and family perspectives in care coordination, and implementing pragmatic models to pay for the coordination of addiction and general medical care. This Open Forum discusses practice and research recommendations to advance the coordination of general medical and addiction care. The discussion is based on the proceedings of a national meeting of experts in 2014.

Source: Psychiatric Services

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201600070

Authors: Amity E. Quinn, Anna D. Rubinsky, Anne C. Fernandez, Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Jeffrey H. Samet

Institutions: University of California, San Francisco, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Brandeis University

Language: English

Topic: Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse