The COMPASS initiative: implementing a complex integrated care program

This issue of General Hospital Psychiatry contains four linked articles from the COMPASS (Care Of Mental, Physical And Substance use Syndromes) Initiative [1–4], a 3-year multisite effort that builds on previous work to improve capabilities to integrate mental health services into primary care. As a prerequisite to understanding the COMPASS articles, it is important to accurately describe related and predecessor models of care. Though related, terms and concepts such as “integrated care,” “Collaborative Care,” “TEAMcare” and “Chronic Care Model” have often been used incorrectly or interchangeably.

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - July 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James R. Rundell, Jeff C. Huffman Source Type: research