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Process
	Acceptability
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	Effectiveness
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Outcome
	Health Conditions
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	Impact on Society

Structure
	Physical Infrastructure
	Personnel Management
	Information Management
	Financial Management
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Non-Medical Determinants of Health
	Health Behaviors
	Living and Working Conditions
	Personal Resources
	Environmental Factors
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Equity
	Equity

Specific Conditions
	Comorbid Conditions
	Chronic Conditions
	Acute Conditions
	Substance Abuse
	Anxiety Disorders
	Somatoform Disorders
	Sleep Disorders
	Eating Disorders
	Personality Disorders
	Mood Disorders
	Psychosis
	Impulse Control Disorders
	Elderly
	Reproductive Mental Health Disorders

Special Groups
	Ethnic / Cultural Minorities
	People Who Live in Rural Areas
	People with a Family History of a Mental Health Condition
	Social Service Welfare Recipients
	Homeless or Itinerant
	Unemployed
	Aboriginal
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	Recent Refugees
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	Inner City Residents
	Speakers of English as a Second Language

Age Groups
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	Children

Gender Groups
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	Gender Identities Other Than Men or Women

Interventions
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	Prevention
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	Early Detection
	Health Promotion
	Family Involvement
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	Self-Management Support
	Rehabilitation
	Physical Health Intervention

Clinical Setting
	Shared Care
	Emergency Services
	School-based Mental Health Services
	Work-based Mental Health Services
	Outreach Services
	Solo Practitioner
	Group Family Practitioner
	Community Health Care Centre
	Walk in Clinics

Level of Evidence

	I	Consistently higher quality studies specifically focused on primary mental health care.
	II	Less rigorous studies specifically focused on primary mental health care or extrapolated from higher quality studies from secondary mental health care.
	III	Preliminary research evidence only or evidence based on consensus opinion only.
	IV	Evidence based on individual expert opinion.
	V	Validated scale: Research has been conducted to determine it has at least some properties associated with a high quality scale
	VI	Non-validated scale: Research regarding the quality of the scale has not been conducted.

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Domains : Comorbid Conditions

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Overall Rank	Primary Domain	Additional Domain(s)	Measure Title
17	Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Competence, Patients with Mood Disorders	Physical Health Checks Physical health checks should pay particular attention to hormonal disorders (e.g., diabetes and hyperprolactinemia), heart disease risk factors (e.g., blood pressure and lipids), side effects of medication, and lifestyle factors (e.g., smoking). These must be recorded in the notes.	Display Detailed
19	Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Accessibility, Patients with Substance Abuse	Relapse Prevention for Alcohol Use Access to relapse prevention treatments of established efficacy should be facilitated for alcohol dependent patients.	Display Detailed
39	Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Patients with Anxiety Disorders, Patients with Mood Disorders	Assessment for Mental Disorders with Unexplained Physical Symptoms Consider the possibility of mood, anxiety or somatoform disorders, particularly in the presence of medically unexplained heart system, digestive system and nervous system symptoms or emergency room visits for medically unexplained physical symptoms.	Display Detailed
50	Competence	Patients with Substance Abuse, Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Multicomponent Provider Education for Alcohol Misuse Care Provision of interventions that have specific focus on alcohol and those that are multi-component, as these can increase the engagement of general practitioners in screening and giving advice for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption.	Display Detailed
57	Competence	Patients with Mood Disorders, Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Therapeutic Alliance Skills Training Training and supervision for primary health care providers on how to build a therapeutic alliance with adults suffering from serious and persistent mental illness and physical comorbidities.	Display Detailed
63	Early Detection	Patients with Comorbid Conditions, Accessibility	Screening Tool for Substance Problems Use of a common, validated screening tool (e.g., a four-item test with questions on Cutting down, Annoyance at criticism, Guilty feelings and use of Eye-openers (CAGE), The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)) for alcohol or other drug problems for all new patients.	Display Detailed
93	Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Patients with Substance Abuse	Brief Intervention for Comorbid Substance Abuse Brief intervention by a primary health care provider using the stages of change model for adult patients with comorbid substance abuse disorders.	Display Detailed
105	Patients with Comorbid Conditions		Prevalence of Comorbid Conditions Percentage of clients with 3 or more distinct major health issues addressed over a one-year period.	Display Detailed
115	Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Service Outputs, Continuity	Dual Diagnosis Follow-Up Post-Discharge Percentage of people discharged from hospital with a dual diagnosis (psychiatric and substance abuse) who receive 4 or more mental health visits and 4 or more substance misuse visits in a 12-month period post-discharge.	Display Detailed
123	Patients with Comorbid Conditions	Health Conditions	Screening for Comorbid Disorders Use of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Concurrent Disorders screener, a validated computer-administered rating scale (5-20 minutes to complete) that flags the possible presence of co-morbid mental health or addictions disorders.	Display Detailed
157	Patients with Comorbid Conditions		Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment Use of the Dual Disorders Integrated Treatment Fidelity scale, a non-validated 16-item measure of fidelity of the practice to the principles of integrated treatment for mental health and substance misuse problems.	Display Detailed

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