Active Grants:
| TITLE: Outcomes Assessment of a New Model of Primary Clinical/Child Psychiatry Collaborative Care |
| Meyers Primary Care Institute |
| PI: D. Connor |
| To complete an outcomes study of Targeted Child Psychiatric Services, a new and innovative model of primary care pediatrician-child psychiatry collaboration in the assessment, treatment, and management of children with psychiatric need identified in pediatric primary care |
| TITLE: Inpact of Prior Approval for Antidepressants in Medicaid |
| NIMH 1 R01 MH069776-01 |
| PI: S. Soumerai |
| This controlled study investigates the impact of Michigan's prior authorization policy on use and costs of antidepressants and other health services by disabled Medicaid enrollees who are also enrolled in Medicare. |
| TITLE: IP-RISP: A System for Management of Depression in Medical Illness |
| NIMH R24 MH67822-01A2 |
| PI: T. McLaughlin |
| The Intervention and Practice Research Infrastructure Support seeks to support conceptual, methodological and organizational development to foster depression intervention research among primary care patients with chronic medical illness. |
| TITLE: Stringing the Pearls: Families & Providers as Partners in Expanding Medical Home Capacity in Central Massachusetts |
| HRSA-Maternal & Child Health Bureau |
| PI: R. Antonelli |
| To demonstrate how existing medical home practices can enhance the care delivered to children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) by integrating families as formal quality improvement advisors, and including community based organizations in the process of qulaity improvement, enhancement and spread of medical home will occur. The most recent National Survey of CSHCN revealed that 52% of CYSHCN have medical homes. In Massachusetts, 48% of parents of CSHCN report receiving effective care coordination. |