title: Process of implementing collaborative care and its impacts on the provision of care and rehabilitation services to patients with a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The introduction of new services in a rehabilitation center is a unique opportunity to introduce a new model of care and services between two institutions. A hospital and a rehabilitation center experienced a clinical management model inspired by an American approach - collaborative care. The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation of this approach and to provide a perception of the quality of care and services provided to patients with moderate or severe traumatic brain injury and to their caregivers.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this qualitative study, individual semistructured interviews were conducted with patients and their caregivers in the hospital and rehabilitation center where the patients were treated. Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with administrators, and two focus groups were held with clinicians before and after the implementation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ten days' waiting time were saved with the collaborative approach. Implementing the collaborative care approach has been found to have several benefits, including improved communication, coordination of services between institutions, and better preparation, awareness, and involvement of patients and their families. Administrators, clinicians, patients, and caregivers expressed their opinions on the organization of care and services, the needs and expectations of patients and their caregivers, their participation in terms of roles and responsibilities, their perception of continuity of care, their satisfaction with the care process, and their suggestions for improvements.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada ; Étienne-Le Bel Clinical Research Centre and the Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Lise R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Talbot
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Annie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lévesque
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Josée
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trottier
keywords: collaborative care; quality of care; rehabilitation; traumatic brain injury
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