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Implementing A Mobile Health System To Integrate The Treatment Of Addiction Into Primary Care: A Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study, Andrew Quanbeck, David H. Gustafson, Lisa A. Marsch, Ming-Yuan Chih, Rachel Kornfield, Fiona Mctavish, Roberta Johnson, Randall T. Brown, Marie-Louise Mares, Dhavan V. Shah
Implementing A Mobile Health System To Integrate The Treatment Of Addiction Into Primary Care: A Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study, Andrew Quanbeck, David H. Gustafson, Lisa A. Marsch, Ming-Yuan Chih, Rachel Kornfield, Fiona Mctavish, Roberta Johnson, Randall T. Brown, Marie-Louise Mares, Dhavan V. Shah
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Background: Despite the near ubiquity of mobile phones, little research has been conducted on the implementation of mobile health (mHealth) apps to treat patients in primary care. Although primary care clinicians routinely treat chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes, they rarely treat addiction, a common chronic condition. Instead, addiction is most often treated in the US health care system, if it is treated at all, in a separate behavioral health system. mHealth could help integrate addiction treatment in primary care.
Objective: The objective of this paper was to report the effects of implementing an mHealth system for addiction in …