Objectives: To investigate the shared mental health care experience of the psychiatry department of a small urban general hospital, which serves an ethnoculturally diverse population. Methods: A chart survey was undertaken of all patients referred by community physicians to a new shared care program between January 1991 and December 1995. Selected demographic and diagnostic characteristics were collected and analyzed. Results: Seven hundred and thirteen patients were assessed. They were principally female, ethnoculturally varied, and highly comorbid. The most striking association involved mood and substance-related disorders. Conclusion: The Doctors Hospital experience shows that the shared care approach can reach large numbers of patients ...
BACKGROUND: Patients with a psychiatric illness have a higher prevalence of physical diseases and th...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to characterize racial-ethnic variation in diagnoses and ...
Shared care involves collaboration between primary care, secondary and tertiary care that enables th...
This paper describes the experience and evaluation of a shared care project targeted at marginalized...
Up to 50% of patients seen in primary care have mental health problems, the severity and duration of...
Up to 50 % of patients seen in primary care have mental health problems, the severity and duration o...
Mental disorders are frequent in primary care settings, which is challenging for primary care physic...
Objective: One way of strengthening ties between primary care providers and psychiatrists is for a p...
Objective: To examine ethnic variations in the pathways to care for persons accessing early interven...
Purpose: This study involved the conduct of a descriptive and process evaluation to examine the impl...
Objectives: To explore primary care clinician perceptions of barriers and facilitators in delivering...
Background: More than 6.7 million people in Canada experience a mental illness during a one-year per...
While integrated primary healthcare for the management of depression has been well researched, appro...
The purpose of this DNP project was to conduct a survey of persons with a mental illness to ascertai...
Objective: To obtain descriptions of how family physicians detect and manage mental health problems ...
BACKGROUND: Patients with a psychiatric illness have a higher prevalence of physical diseases and th...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to characterize racial-ethnic variation in diagnoses and ...
Shared care involves collaboration between primary care, secondary and tertiary care that enables th...
This paper describes the experience and evaluation of a shared care project targeted at marginalized...
Up to 50% of patients seen in primary care have mental health problems, the severity and duration of...
Up to 50 % of patients seen in primary care have mental health problems, the severity and duration o...
Mental disorders are frequent in primary care settings, which is challenging for primary care physic...
Objective: One way of strengthening ties between primary care providers and psychiatrists is for a p...
Objective: To examine ethnic variations in the pathways to care for persons accessing early interven...
Purpose: This study involved the conduct of a descriptive and process evaluation to examine the impl...
Objectives: To explore primary care clinician perceptions of barriers and facilitators in delivering...
Background: More than 6.7 million people in Canada experience a mental illness during a one-year per...
While integrated primary healthcare for the management of depression has been well researched, appro...
The purpose of this DNP project was to conduct a survey of persons with a mental illness to ascertai...
Objective: To obtain descriptions of how family physicians detect and manage mental health problems ...
BACKGROUND: Patients with a psychiatric illness have a higher prevalence of physical diseases and th...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to characterize racial-ethnic variation in diagnoses and ...
Shared care involves collaboration between primary care, secondary and tertiary care that enables th...