[PC-BH-Integration] (no subject)

[Kessler, Rodger S.]

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Dear colleagues:
We are pleased to announce the beginning of recruitment of individuals and practices into the Collaborative Care Research Network (CCRN), a Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) which is a subnetwork of the Academy's National Research Network (NRN). Membership in the Network is not a commitment to any particular project but rather the opportunity to participate in projects that we collectively develop. As projects proceed we will provide technical support and assistance to make sure that data collection is not a burden to individual or practices. Ideally, we would want the initial recruitment push to be done relatively quickly so that data we collect in the recruitment process can be immediately aggregated and used in grant applications and presentations that are forthcoming. We hope that we will have over 50 enrollees with in the first month.

The purpose of the CCRN is to develop and implement a national, practice based research agenda to evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration between behavioral health, psychology and substance abuse intervention and primary medical care. With the emergence of the medical home, it is clear that such services are to be a prominent dimension of responding to patient and families' health needs. However, there is an equally crucial need to evaluate the effectiveness of such collaborative care in ways that are both useful to primary care practitioners, and answer the important questions that have and will be raised. The recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) systematic review concluded that integrated and collaborative care was generally effective but that currently there was no evidence to support that any particular models were superior, or that we can identify specific elements that account for effectiveness. They conclude with a call for effectiveness research to respond to these issues.

We believe that the CCRN offers a broad based, multidisciplinary opportunity to accomplish the aforementioned tasks. We are already pursuing opportunities to generate and respond to a research agenda. We are seeking psychologists, social workers, MFT, licensed mental health and substance abuse counselors, family physicians, internists, pediatricians, and other primary care physicians  to participate as well as their medical practices, community health centers, residency programs and other interested practices. We encourage you to join us. For further information about the CCRN contact Rodger Kessler Ph.D. ABPP (Rodger.Kessler at uvm.edu) or Ben Miller PsyD . (Benjamin.Miller at ucdenver.edu) For enrollment material please contact the CCRN at CCRN at AAFP.org

Sincerely,

Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD                                Rodger Kessler, PhD, ABPP


Wilson Pace, MD                                 Deborah Graham, MSPH






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