Collaborative Care between OB-GYN and mental health professionals especially helpful to poor women

From Psychiatric News Alert

The collaborative care model included an initial engagement session with the care manager, choice of psychotherapy or medication, help for uninsured patients with charity care for medications and use of social workers as care managers to help alleviate barriers to care. 

Compared with patients with commercial insurance, those with no insurance or with public coverage had greater recovery from depression symptoms with collaborative care than with usual care over the 18-month follow-up period. 

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Editor's note:

More evidence of the good medical outcomes when mental health services are added to the mix with primary care services.