Understanding Integrated Mental Health Care in “Real-World” Primary Care Settings: What Matters to Health Care Providers and Clients for Evaluation and Improvement?

PURPOSE: The integration of mental health specialists into primary care has been widely advocated to deliver evidence-based mental health care to a defined population while improving access, clinical outcomes, and cost efficiency. Integrated care has been infrequently and inconsistently translated into real-world settings; as a result, the key individual components of effective integrated care remain unclear. METHOD: This article reports …