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. 2017 Oct 17;12(10):e0186315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186315

Table 2. SEIPS model, current state, and areas for improvement.

SEIPS DOMAINS DEFINITIONS CURRENT STATE AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT
ENVIRONMENT
  • Environment: the physical environment and location of the system

  • 8 countries globally (U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, Austria, France, Ireland, Italy)

  • Highly variable setting

  • Primarily health centers affiliated with academic institutions

  • Expand primary care interventions to more community health settings

ORGANIZATION
  • Organization: includes concepts such as relationships between healthcare workers and patients as well as coordination, collaboration, and communication between those involved in the system

  • Existing Care Organization Models
    • Coordinated Care: minimum 2–3 professions working to coordinate care to deliver best practices (e.g. NCM, Pharmacist & Physician)
    • Multi-disciplinary Care: 2 disciplines working together (e.g. Psych & GIM)
    • Shared Care: specialty services (e.g. addiction psychiatry) lead the induction process & hands off to Internal Medicine/Primary Care to share longitudinal care
    • Chronic Care: utilizing healthcare resources to self-empower individual management of chronic disease
    • Physician Centric: single physician (or group of only physicians) working with available resources to manage OUD with BP/Methadone/NX
  • Implement Coordinated Care models with non-physician team members (i.e. RNs) to help manage patient appointments and lab results

  • Evaluate effectiveness of multidisciplinary teams in providing comprehensive behavioral counseling and better outcomes

  • Determine appropriate skillset needed by non-physician team members to appropriately delegate tasks for high quality care

PERSON/TASKS
  • Person: all of the individuals, both healthcare workers and patients, involved in the design of the work system

  • Tasks: clinical processes and responsibilities of both the healthcare workers involved in the system as well as responsibilities for the patient (i.e. receiving medication, counseling attendance, etc.)

  • Large variation in type of skilled professionals providing support (e.g. nurses, pharmacists, counselors)

  • Pharmacists roles and tasks (i.e. supervising dispensing, clinical appointments, management) dependent upon intervention

  • Behavioral health providers ranged in training (i.e. PhD psychologists, certified addiction counselors, social workers)

  • Capitalize on various providers’ skillsets to deliver high quality care

  • Employ clinical pharmacists for complicated medication dosing and management

  • Increase clinical support (i.e. nursing) responsibility in management of patients

PROCESS
  • Process: the flow of actions or steps taken to provide patient care (e.g. order of delivery for intake, induction, maintenance, and follow up)

  • Use of non-physician staff to conduct patient intakes decreased physician work load

  • Home inductions allowed patient autonomy and less frequent initial appointments

  • Limited studies evaluated behavioral counseling approaches compared to medical management

  • Understand which patients can safely undergo home inductions

  • Streamline home induction process to decrease care utilization during induction time period

  • Utilize non-physician team members to conduct patient intakes

  • Develop technologies and systems providing after hour support for patient care, data collection, & feedback

  • Promote PCP management of stabilized patients on maintenance medications within specialty addiction treatment programs

TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS
  • Technology and Tools: components of the system including various information technologies like electronic health records, human factors characteristics of technologies (i.e. usability), and other technologies incorporated

  • Only 10 studies explicitly noted using patient treatment agreement

  • Most studies used some form of a urine drug screen to monitor adherence

  • Only 3 studies used panel management structure to keep track of patient level data

  • Standardize important tools (i.e. toxicology screenings & management structures) to monitor patient and population level outcomes

PATIENT/ PROVIDER OUTCOMES
  • Patient Outcomes: participant perceptions of the care delivery model, retention rates in the intervention, and health outcomes for the participant

  • Provider Outcomes: provider perceptions of the care delivery model and system

  • The most commonly measured patient outcomes were retention in intervention, self-reported abstinence, and abstinence via/urine toxicology screens

  • Less than half of the studies collected outcomes regarding other common primary care based comorbidities

  • Provider outcomes were only discussed in 10 included trials

  • Provider outcomes did highlight the benefits of coordinated care models

  • Gather patient-centered outcomes including management of physical and mental comorbidities

  • Collect outcomes related to social determinants, social support, and improvement in work/personal level functioning

  • Collect provider outcomes regarding appropriate levels of training to provide care

  • Develop and evaluate provider support systems to provide ongoing education and prevent provider burnout