Richard Della Penna

TL;DR: The IMPACT collaborative care model appears to be feasible and significantly more effective than usual care for depression in a wide range of primary care practices.

TL;DR: In a large and diverse population of older adults with arthritis (mostly osteoarthritis) and comorbid depression, benefits of improved depression care extended beyond reduced depressive symptoms and included decreased pain as well as improved functional status and quality of life.

TL;DR: IPCS patients reported greater satisfaction with their care experience and providers' communication, had fewer ICU admissions on readmission, and lower total health care costs following hospital discharge, compared with other palliative care services.

TL;DR: A guideline-based, comprehensive dementia care management intervention is designed and tested in a clinic-level, cluster randomized, controlled trial to address gaps in care quality for patients with dementia.

TL;DR: Compared with usual primary care, the IMPACT program is associated with a high probability of lower total healthcare costs during a 4-year period, and a bootstrap analysis suggested an 87% probability that the IMPact program was associated with lower healthcare costs than usual care.