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 a nd concepts such as “integrated care,” “Collaborative Care,” “TEAMcare” and “Chronic Care Model” have often been used incorrectly or interchangeably.
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research