While behavioral health has been slow on the adoption curve for measurement-based care, tailwinds are boosting it use and uptake with upside for patients and clinicians alike.
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Coming from the non-behavioral world where we routinely were collecting PHQ-9's, a challenge will be how to have coherent and integrated mechanisms to treat deviations from the patient's level. Will we always refer back to the patient's behavioral health provider? Will generalists (and possibly specialists) have time and interest to manage medication titration? Especially as payers start to mandate collection of these measures, we will need folks like y'all to guide us on how to manage these scores.
Second is that while a patient may not say that their PHQ-9 is too high (yet), patients do notice if they've gained weight or if their blood pressure is higher. I think that folks are pretty adaptable as exemplified by those who take a more quantified approach to their health who literally lose sleep over their sub optimal sleep scores from their wearables. I think that as the measures are more wide spread and patients/providers understand the benefits of the measures and interventions, we will see patients asking for about changes in their scores.
Enjoyed this article (as I do all y'all's thoughts)!
Coming from the non-behavioral world where we routinely were collecting PHQ-9's, a challenge will be how to have coherent and integrated mechanisms to treat deviations from the patient's level. Will we always refer back to the patient's behavioral health provider? Will generalists (and possibly specialists) have time and interest to manage medication titration? Especially as payers start to mandate collection of these measures, we will need folks like y'all to guide us on how to manage these scores.
Second is that while a patient may not say that their PHQ-9 is too high (yet), patients do notice if they've gained weight or if their blood pressure is higher. I think that folks are pretty adaptable as exemplified by those who take a more quantified approach to their health who literally lose sleep over their sub optimal sleep scores from their wearables. I think that as the measures are more wide spread and patients/providers understand the benefits of the measures and interventions, we will see patients asking for about changes in their scores.