In this paper we propose a framework for modelling asynchronous collaboration. Drawing on arguments that a taskbased approach is inappropriate for the analysis collaborative work we model collaboration in terms of the artefacts, users, and information flow involved. We illustrate the framework's potential through studies of shared care of diabetic patients, and discuss the implications of this ...

BACKGROUND Given the scarcity of specialist mental healthcare in India, diverse community mental healthcare models have evolved. This study explores and compares Indian models of mental healthcare delivered by primary-level workers (PHW), and health workers' roles within these. We aim to describe current service delivery to identify feasible and acceptable models with potential for scaling up. ...

Depression often goes undetected and undertreated in primary care settings. Collaborative management of mental disorders; such as depression, with the involvement a multidisciplinary team care, is an effective solution to improve depression treatment. This study aimed understand collaborative for health care. was order evaluate contemporary conceptions Care (CC) medical problems. examined numer...

BACKGROUND Alberta Health Services is a provincial health authority responsible for healthcare for more than four million people. The organization recognized a need to change its care delivery model to make care more patient- and family-centred and use its health human resources more effectively by enhancing collaborative practice. A new care model including changes to how providers deliver car...

BACKGROUND Patients with comorbid depression and physical health problems have poorer outcomes compared with those with single long term conditions (LTCs), or multiple LTCs without depression. Primary care has traditionally struggled to provide integrated care for this group. Collaborative care can reduce depression in people with LTCs but evidence is largely based on trials conducted in the Un...