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Development and initial feasibility of an organizational measure of behavioral health integration in medical care settings

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The Dual Diagnosis Capability in Health Care Settings (DDCHCS) was found to be feasible and sensitive to detecting variation in integrated behavioral health services capacity, and mental health services were more integrated than substance use.
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This article is published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Health care reform.

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Measuring Organizational Capacity to Treat Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders.

TL;DR: Global clinical judgments, whether they be about predicting improvement in client outcomes or readiness of an organization to change are poorer guides to action than are objective scales measuring discrete aspects of performance.
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Assessing the Integration of Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care in Colombia.

TL;DR: Results indicate a minimal to partial integration level across all sites, and that it is possible to measure the degree of integrated care capacity and identify improvement areas for better behavioral health care provision.
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The availability of alcohol, tobacco and other drug services for adults in New York State Community Health Centers

TL;DR: SUD screening rates remain low among F QHC primary care sites, but that FQHC organization could improve rates across sites by requiring SUD screening using a standard instrument.
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The Integrating Medications for Addiction Treatment (IMAT) Index: A measure of capability at the organizational level.

TL;DR: Findings support the IMAT Index as psychometrically acceptable and pragmatically useful, and suggest its applicability for systems and organizations, as well as for process improvement and implementation research.
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Consensus methods for medical and health services research.

TL;DR: Two consensus methods commonly adopted in medical, nursing, and health services research--the Delphi process and the nominal group technique (also known as the expert panel)--are described, together with the most appropriate situations for using them.
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Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity—A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

David Satcher
TL;DR: This Supplement documents that the science base on racial and ethnic minority mental health is inadequate; the best available research indicates that these groups have less access to and avail-ability of care, and tend to receive poorer quality mental health services.
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Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use.

TL;DR: The characteristics of several major methods (Delphi, Nominal Group, and models developed by the National Institutes of Health and Glaser) are surveyed and guidelines for those who want to use the techniques are provided.
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Ethnic Disparities in Unmet Need for Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Care

TL;DR: Greater unmet need for alcoholism and drug abuse treatment and mental health care among African American and Hispanics relative to whites is document.
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Evidence of self-report bias in assessing adherence to guidelines.

TL;DR: Although self-reports may provide information regarding clinicians' knowledge of guideline recommendations, they are subject to bias and should not be used as the sole measure of guideline adherence.
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The measure was found to be feasible and sensitive to detecting variation in integrated behavioral health services capacity.