RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Team-based stepped care in integrated delivery settings
JF Family Medicine and Community Health
JO Fam Med Com Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 39
OP 46
DO 10.15212/FMCH.2015.0101
VO 3
IS 1
A1 Cassandra Snipes
A1 Alexandros Maragakis
A1 William O’Donohue
YR 2015
UL http://fmch.bmj.com/content/3/1/39.abstract
AB Fragmented health care delivery is recognized as increasingly problematic. Integrated care has been advanced as a reform that will improve quality of care and lower costs. Despite the application of integrated care systems in the United States, there has been a limited amount of empirical work explicating the most effective health care pathways. Stepped care has been proposed as a framework by which to implement coordinated team-based care and has gained preliminary empirical support. In this manuscript a rationale for team-based stepped care is presented, tools for implementation are provided, and future research directions are suggested.