The collaboration between psychiatry and primary care in managed care.
Primary care physicians have an important historical role in the delivery of mental health care despite the evolution of psychiatry as a specialty. Collaboration between primary care physicians and psychiatrists has been limited by problems of access to psychiatric care or consultation. Although managed care, in some forms, has been successful in addressing this issue, it has largely served as a new barrier to effective collaboration and to meeting the mental health care needs of patients.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont School of Medicine, Burlington, USA.
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