Delivering Collaborative Care in Rural Settings: Integrating Remote Teleconsultation and Local Supervision in Rural Nepal.

Delivering Collaborative Care in Rural Settings: Integrating Remote Teleconsultation and Local Supervision in Rural Nepal. Psychiatr Serv. 2018 Sep 17;:appips201800273 Authors: Swar S, Rimal P, Gauchan B, Maru D, Yang Y, Acharya B Abstract The collaborative care model can deliver high-quality mental health care. In rural regions, clinical supervision is conducted remotely rather than in person. The authors implemented a remote teleconsultation model in rural Nepal, where the consulting psychiatrist is over 30 hours away. This column describes strategies for several challenges: poor mental health competencies and high turnover among primary care providers; need for urgent consultations; psychiatrist discomfort with lack of direct patient contact; unreliable electricity, technological tools, documentation, and delivery of treatment recommendations; on-site clinicians' low motivation to accept psychiatrist recommendations; and mismatch between the psychiatrist's recommendations and the site's capacity to implement them. PMID: 30220241 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Rural Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Authors: Tags: Psychiatr Serv Source Type: research