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Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions
Application of the Quality Chasm approach to health care for mental and substance-use conditions, 10–23 , 70–72 .
See also Recommendations
applicability of the Quality Chasm framework, 72
relationship between M/SU and general health care, 70–72
Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA), 299
Auditing, to ensure that performance measures have been calculated accurately and according to specifications, 187
B
Behavioral Health Data Standards Workgroup (BHDSW), 272
Behavioral health information management, and the NHII, nationwide summit on, 273–274
Benefits and risks of different treatment, providing information about, 117
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), 160
Budgeted systems of care, 343
C
Campbell Collaboration, 165
Care coordination and related practices defined, 211–214
care coordination, 213
care integration, 213
collaboration, 212–213
communication, 212
integrated treatment, 213–214
Care delivery
gaps in knowledge about effective, 353–355
need to navigate a greater number of arrangements in health care for mental/substance-use conditions, 66–67
by or through non-health care sectors, 275
Care integration, 213
clinical integration, 213
physician (or clinician) integration, 213
Carve-out services
in Medicaid, 341–342
by private payers, 332–333
Case (care) management, 238–239
Center for Studying Health System Change, The, 278
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), 299
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 13–14 , 17–18 , 174–180 , 374–375 , 377–378
centers, institute, and offices of, 175
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 13–14 , 22–23 , 174–180 , 358 , 377–378 , 383
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, 265
Change, need for a sustained commitment to bring about, 315–317
Change agenda, 350–390
knowledge gaps in treatment, care delivery, and quality improvement, 351–355
marketplace incentives leveraging needed, 325–349
review of actions needed for quality improvement at all levels of the health care system, 360–388
strategies for filling knowledge gaps, 355–360
summary, 350–351
Changes in MH/SA service delivery in the VHA, 436–437
Child welfare services, 226–227
increased burden on, 41–44
Childhood conditions, gaps in knowledge about therapies for high-prevalence, 352–353
Chronic Care Model, 83 , 121–122 , 241–242 , 306
Clinical integration, 213
Clinically active (CA) mental health personnel, 292
Clinically trained (CT) mental health personnel, 292
Clinicians
diverse types of health care providers, 278
financial issues, 279
in health care for mental/substance-use conditions, 65–66