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Tele-Behavioral Health, Collaborative Care, and Integrated Care: Learning to Leverage Scarce Psychiatric Resources over Distance, Populations, and Time

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Ratzliff, A., Sunderji, N. Tele-Behavioral Health, Collaborative Care, and Integrated Care: Learning to Leverage Scarce Psychiatric Resources over Distance, Populations, and Time. Acad Psychiatry 42, 834–840 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-018-0984-5

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