The Limits of Collaborative Care: Why the CLARO Trial Found No Added Benefit for OUD and Comorbid Mental Illness

The Limits of Collaborative Care: Why the CLARO Trial Found No Added Benefit for OUD and Comorbid Mental Illness

The CLARO randomized clinical trial investigated whether a collaborative care model could improve outcomes for patients with opioid use disorder and co-occurring depression or PTSD. The study found no statistically significant advantages over enhanced usual care, suggesting challenges in implementing these models for complex, low-resource populations.
Scaling Symptom Relief: EHR-Facilitated Collaborative Care Outperforms Surveillance Alone in Large-Scale Oncology Trial

Scaling Symptom Relief: EHR-Facilitated Collaborative Care Outperforms Surveillance Alone in Large-Scale Oncology Trial

The E2C2 trial demonstrates that integrating electronic health record (EHR)-facilitated collaborative care with symptom surveillance significantly reduces the burden of anxiety, depression, and fatigue in oncology patients compared to surveillance alone, offering a scalable model for population-level symptom management.