Understanding integrated mental health care in “real-world” primary care settings: What matters to health care providers and clients for evaluation and improvement?

The integration of mental health specialists into primary care has been widely advocated to deliver evidence-based mental health care to a defined population while improving access, clinical outcomes, and cost efficiency. Integrated care has been infrequently and inconsistently translated into real-world settings; as a result, the key individual components of effective integrated care remain unclear.This article reports findings from a...