STEP LC - Overview of EIS for Schizophrenia - Session 1
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- 00:03Alright. So welcome, everyone, to
- 00:05the step learning collaborative's
- 00:07overview of
- 00:09early intervention services for schizophrenia
- 00:11course.
- 00:13We're so glad to have
- 00:14so many of you joining
- 00:15us.
- 00:17We wanted to start with
- 00:18some introductions.
- 00:21For those of you who
- 00:22I haven't met before, my
- 00:23name is Laura Yauveen Sykes.
- 00:25Professionally,
- 00:26I'm a clinical psychologist
- 00:28at the STEP program,
- 00:30and I'm also the director
- 00:31of our STEP learning collaborative.
- 00:33And then personally, I'm a
- 00:35family member of someone experiencing
- 00:37schizophrenia.
- 00:39And I'm so excited to
- 00:40be joined today and throughout
- 00:42the rest of the course,
- 00:43by doctor Vinod Srihari,
- 00:46a professor at the Yale
- 00:48School of Medicine in the
- 00:49department of psychiatry.
- 00:51He's the director,
- 00:53founder, and also a practicing
- 00:54psychiatrist
- 00:56at the STEP program and
- 00:57overall kind of visionary for
- 00:59our statewide for our hopes
- 01:00of a a statewide network
- 01:02of care.
- 01:03We're
- 01:05really excited to be joined
- 01:07by so many leaders,
- 01:09managers, and mental health, practitioners
- 01:11who are invested in the
- 01:12well-being
- 01:13of young people with recent
- 01:15onset psychotic disorders.
- 01:17So we're really eager and
- 01:19excited to get to know
- 01:20all of you better and
- 01:21build ongoing relationships with you.
- 01:24For the interest of time,
- 01:26we ask that everyone introduce
- 01:27themselves
- 01:28in the chat. Feel free
- 01:30to just type in your
- 01:31name,
- 01:32organization,
- 01:34and the role that you
- 01:35hold.
- 01:44So I'll take a couple
- 01:45minutes to just orient everyone
- 01:47to the course,
- 01:48before we get into the
- 01:50bulk of the content for
- 01:51today.
- 01:52So, again, this is our
- 01:54overview of early intervention services
- 01:56for schizophrenia,
- 01:59six week course.
- 02:00Here's the the overview of
- 02:02our next six sessions,
- 02:04which will be held on,
- 02:06upcoming Thursdays.
- 02:09We hope that,
- 02:11after participating, you all will
- 02:13leave with a foundation,
- 02:15a foundational knowledge in the
- 02:16research,
- 02:17evidence,
- 02:18and a clear understanding of
- 02:20the structures,
- 02:21processes, and outcomes that can
- 02:23guide,
- 02:24implementation
- 02:25of
- 02:26steps for early intervention service
- 02:28care pathway.
- 02:30We hope that this will
- 02:31enable you all to prepare
- 02:32your respective health care organizations
- 02:35to be able to participate
- 02:36in an emerging statewide system
- 02:38of care for individuals experiencing
- 02:41recent onset psychotic disorders.
- 02:45For those
- 02:46looking for additional information, you
- 02:48can find,
- 02:49a bit more in that
- 02:50course syllabus that Nina sent
- 02:52out to you all yesterday,
- 02:53and I'm also happy to
- 02:55to resend that in a
- 02:56a subsequent email.
- 03:01So before we dive into
- 03:02today's content,
- 03:03I wanted to take a
- 03:04moment to just orient you
- 03:06to the step learning collaborative.
- 03:08So for those of you
- 03:09who, haven't been familiar with
- 03:11this initiative,
- 03:13it's a workforce development and
- 03:15community education initiative
- 03:17to bolster provider capacity,
- 03:20to better serve folks, who
- 03:21are experiencing recent onset schizophrenia
- 03:24spectrum disorders across of our
- 03:26state of Connecticut.
- 03:28So
- 03:29when there's the overall goal
- 03:31and vision, which doctor Sriheri
- 03:33will talk about in more
- 03:34depth, but that we we
- 03:36imagine,
- 03:37we have an end goal
- 03:38of no matter which ZIP
- 03:40code an individual experiencing
- 03:43psychosis lives in, that they'd
- 03:44be able to rapidly
- 03:46access high quality care in
- 03:48our state of Connecticut.
- 03:50So over the past several
- 03:52years, the learning collaborative has
- 03:54provided various offerings,
- 03:56to different stakeholder groups.
- 03:58We have had a focus,
- 04:00for behavioral health providers.
- 04:02We've been developing this course
- 04:04that we're offering to you
- 04:05now.
- 04:06We've previously run,
- 04:08an early psychosis echo, which
- 04:10was focused on
- 04:12providers across the state bringing
- 04:13in different case discussions
- 04:15as well as,
- 04:17step kind of content experts
- 04:18offering brief didactics about best
- 04:21practices for early psychosis care.
- 04:24We periodically offer webinars
- 04:27for providers.
- 04:28And then we also,
- 04:30aim to serve and engage
- 04:32with the community and various
- 04:34stakeholders, so including
- 04:36family,
- 04:37and just other interested community
- 04:39stakeholders
- 04:39through different types of workshops,
- 04:41including,
- 04:42you know, learning strategies for
- 04:44talking with someone experiencing early
- 04:46psychosis,
- 04:48seminars to help kinda break
- 04:50the stigma or learn how
- 04:51to interact with mobile crisis
- 04:53teams during
- 04:55a crisis situation.
- 04:57And then we also maintain
- 04:58a variety of virtual resources
- 05:00and encourage you all to
- 05:02to check out our website
- 05:03if you haven't already at
- 05:04ctearlypsychosisnetwork
- 05:06dot org.
- 05:12So,
- 05:13this slide, which we hope
- 05:14you'll get become very well
- 05:16acquainted with over the next
- 05:18six weeks,
- 05:21this overview course is organized
- 05:23around the step service care
- 05:24pathway, which you can see
- 05:26outlined here.
- 05:28So each session well, today's
- 05:30kind of an, you know,
- 05:31introduction and overview, but each
- 05:32subsequent session will focus on
- 05:34one of these modules,
- 05:36that make up the step
- 05:38service care pathway.
- 05:40And as a reminder,
- 05:41the goal of the overview
- 05:42course would really be to
- 05:44support your understanding
- 05:45of the structures,
- 05:47processes, and outcomes that can
- 05:48guide implementation
- 05:50of such a care pathway.
- 05:54So we will talk about
- 05:55each of these. They include
- 05:56early detection,
- 05:58evaluation
- 05:59and initiation of treatment,
- 06:02continuing care
- 06:04in coordinated specialty care,
- 06:06and then lastly, care transition.
- 06:08So you can see that
- 06:09the most of the the
- 06:11sessions will align with one
- 06:12of these modules.
- 06:15So now I will hand
- 06:16it over to doctor Srihari
- 06:18who will lead us on
- 06:19an introduction to early intervention
- 06:21for schizophrenia in Connecticut.
- 06:26Thanks, Laura, and thanks everyone
- 06:28for putting in your names
- 06:30and roles on the chat.
- 06:31It's really great to see
- 06:32the diversity of expertise and
- 06:34also the different regions of
- 06:36the state that are represented.
- 06:39My task here is to
- 06:40cover some key concepts by
- 06:42way of introducing
- 06:44the rest of the sessions.
- 06:46And
- 06:48my goal here by the
- 06:49end of this session is
- 06:50to give you a sense
- 06:52of how we've constructed
- 06:54and
- 06:55tested the model of care
- 06:57that we've been providing at
- 06:58STEP.
- 06:59And as Laura mentioned, to
- 07:00help you think about ways
- 07:02in which this this might
- 07:03be relevant
- 07:04or which aspects of this
- 07:06might be relevant to your
- 07:07own organizations
- 07:09as we start thinking about
- 07:11partnering with, agencies across the
- 07:13state to improve,
- 07:15pathways to care and outcomes
- 07:17of treatment for early course
- 07:20schizophrenia.
- 07:21We can go to the
- 07:22next slide.
- 07:27So,
- 07:28as a as a review
- 07:31to describe maybe what our
- 07:33target illnesses
- 07:34are, we're speaking here about,
- 07:37syndromes.
- 07:38So these include
- 07:40subjective
- 07:41symptoms, but also signs that
- 07:43can be observed
- 07:44that typically fall into five
- 07:46clusters. The first that are
- 07:47often the most familiar
- 07:49even to non clinicians are
- 07:51the so called positive symptoms
- 07:52that sometimes get referred to
- 07:54as psychosis or psychotic symptoms.
- 07:56The reality distortion, delusions, hallucinations,
- 08:00and the kinds of disorganization
- 08:02that can be very evident
- 08:04even to
- 08:05an untrained,
- 08:06eye. So these are the
- 08:07positive symptoms.
- 08:09In the next slide,
- 08:11you will see a description
- 08:13here of the negative symptoms,
- 08:16maybe better described as
- 08:18signs that can be observed
- 08:20again that are an absence
- 08:22of what we would all
- 08:23count on as normal functioning.
- 08:25So a severe lack of
- 08:27motivation,
- 08:29lack of spontaneous speech. In
- 08:31many ways, the most disabling
- 08:33aspects of these illnesses,
- 08:35that can explain,
- 08:37long term dysfunction and morbidity.
- 08:40Interestingly,
- 08:41these symptoms
- 08:43or signs
- 08:45can,
- 08:46include a normal ability to
- 08:48enjoy pleasure,
- 08:50but
- 08:51do not,
- 08:52include an ability to anticipate
- 08:54or to plan ahead for
- 08:55this. And it often will
- 08:57present with someone whose parents
- 08:59might complain that the person
- 09:01is quite willing to join
- 09:02them in a recreational activity
- 09:04and appears to enjoy it,
- 09:05but will not initiate or
- 09:07or demonstrate any motivation to
- 09:10organize or plan it themselves.
- 09:11And you might imagine how
- 09:13this can be a huge
- 09:14source of social disability in
- 09:16a young adult,
- 09:17who is expected to be
- 09:19able to form their own
- 09:20social networks at that age.
- 09:22The next slide describes a
- 09:24couple of other at clusters
- 09:26that are less well
- 09:28appreciated.
- 09:30So the cognitive deficits,
- 09:32of these illnesses can be
- 09:33quite disabling as well,
- 09:35but are often subclinical.
- 09:37They're difficult to observe in
- 09:38usual clinical interactions,
- 09:40although they are, easily
- 09:42measurable in more detailed neuropsychological
- 09:45testing.
- 09:46And, again, like negative symptoms,
- 09:49explain much of the long
- 09:50term disability of these illnesses.
- 09:53And finally, the clusters that
- 09:55overlap significantly with mood disorders
- 09:58include
- 09:59dysregulations
- 10:00that look like depression and
- 10:01can also look like florid
- 10:03mania. And so in in
- 10:05these five clusters,
- 10:07I've described to you, a
- 10:08syndromal picture that is, I'm
- 10:10sure, familiar to to many
- 10:11of you
- 10:13that probably includes several different
- 10:15diseases that we currently
- 10:17today cluster as schizophrenia or
- 10:19the schizophrenias.
- 10:21I think the next slide,
- 10:23will will describe how we
- 10:25currently classify this in the
- 10:27DSM five. And,
- 10:31one,
- 10:32psychiatrist has described this as
- 10:33a field guide much like
- 10:36a a book that has
- 10:37pictures of birds that if
- 10:39one were to enter a
- 10:40forest, one could reliably identify
- 10:42and name them.
- 10:44And the point here, of
- 10:45course, is that they're quite
- 10:46reliable in that it helps
- 10:48us have a common language
- 10:49to describe,
- 10:51aspects of the syndromes.
- 10:53But, there has been,
- 10:55lately, a lot of good
- 10:57criticism that this might not
- 10:59quite carve things in the
- 11:00way that we would want
- 11:01to.
- 11:02So,
- 11:04we still find the distinction,
- 11:05though, between the non affective
- 11:07psychotic disorders that I'll now
- 11:09refer to as the schizophrenia
- 11:11from the affect of psychosis.
- 11:12And these are primary mood
- 11:14disorders
- 11:15that may also have
- 11:16positive symptoms or psychotic symptoms
- 11:19as part of their course.
- 11:20In our care model and
- 11:22in the evidence that that
- 11:24follows,
- 11:25I will mostly
- 11:27be referring actually exclusively to
- 11:29the non affective psychotic disorders
- 11:30or the schizophrenias.
- 11:32Next slide.
- 11:35Another feature to keep in
- 11:37mind is there
- 11:38that these are illnesses that
- 11:40typically onset in late adolescence
- 11:42or early adulthood.
- 11:44There is a difference between
- 11:46the genders,
- 11:47and,
- 11:49there there has been some
- 11:51evidence that there may be
- 11:52another spike in the onset
- 11:54of of psychosis
- 11:56around the perimenopausal
- 11:57period in females, although this
- 11:59has come under some,
- 12:01critique as well. But the
- 12:03main point here is that
- 12:04this emerges at a time
- 12:06for most people between their
- 12:08late teens and early twenties.
- 12:10That is a particularly vulnerable
- 12:12period for
- 12:13development in general in a
- 12:15time when people are leaving
- 12:16home for college,
- 12:19or beginning relationships
- 12:21or beginning jobs. And so
- 12:23these illnesses can be uniquely
- 12:25disruptive because of the time
- 12:26at which they tend to
- 12:27emerge. Next slide.
- 12:31Oh,
- 12:32yeah. We you can,
- 12:34this is to make the
- 12:35the point I was trying
- 12:36to make earlier, which is,
- 12:38more recent studies that are
- 12:40depicted on top right suggests
- 12:42that
- 12:43the incidence
- 12:45in females
- 12:46might actually be spread out
- 12:47a lot more than previously
- 12:49recognized.
- 12:50And the other,
- 12:51fact that's emerging is that
- 12:53most,
- 12:54early intervention clinics like ours
- 12:56should expect to see a
- 12:57preponderance of males and just
- 12:59because of the nature of
- 13:01the age of onset of
- 13:03these illnesses.
- 13:05Next
- 13:06slide.
- 13:08So,
- 13:10although there are,
- 13:12concerns about the way we
- 13:14categorize these illnesses,
- 13:16the category of the schizophrenia
- 13:17is still very useful. And
- 13:19in some ways, the slide
- 13:20describes,
- 13:21why.
- 13:23We know a lot about
- 13:24this cluster of syndromes, which
- 13:26is that they tend to
- 13:27have a period,
- 13:29of what we call the
- 13:31premorbid period where there are
- 13:32no discernible symptoms or signs
- 13:35of any illness.
- 13:37So unlike disorders of very
- 13:39early neurodevelopment
- 13:40like autism where typically a
- 13:42clinical diagnosis can be made
- 13:44before the age of four
- 13:45or five and sometimes sooner,
- 13:48the early period,
- 13:50in individuals who will go
- 13:51on to have schizophrenia tends
- 13:52to be remarkable for being
- 13:55without any evidence of abnormalities
- 13:57that are at least detectable
- 13:59with our current, instruments.
- 14:01But for most individuals who
- 14:02end up with a psychotic
- 14:04episode that's in the slide
- 14:06marked as a first episode,
- 14:08there is a period prior
- 14:09to that of the so
- 14:10called prodrome,
- 14:12which is sometimes difficult to
- 14:13distinguish from the
- 14:15challenges of normal development at
- 14:17the time and becomes clear
- 14:19often only in retrospect when
- 14:21family members will say, well,
- 14:23actually, there was this time
- 14:24in middle school when and
- 14:26so on. So
- 14:27this is an active area
- 14:28of research to try to
- 14:30disentangle
- 14:31normal development from what is
- 14:33actually a high risk period
- 14:35for psychosis.
- 14:36But at the first episode
- 14:37is when it becomes,
- 14:40apparent and clear and clinically,
- 14:43reliable
- 14:44or or which is to
- 14:45say that clinicians can reliably
- 14:47detect the presence of an
- 14:49illness, that will benefit from
- 14:51treatment.
- 14:52Unfortunately, what follows after that
- 14:54is the jagged yellow line
- 14:56for most patients, and that's
- 14:58meant to signify
- 14:59repeated relapses,
- 15:01often rehospitalizations,
- 15:03periods when individuals are in
- 15:05and then out and then
- 15:06in and then out of
- 15:08care. And over those first
- 15:09three to five periods, which
- 15:11is called the critical period,
- 15:13most of the decline in
- 15:15functioning begins to accumulate.
- 15:17It is a time when
- 15:19individuals will often lose
- 15:21various forms of connection to
- 15:23their community. They might drop
- 15:25out of high school or
- 15:26college. They might lose an
- 15:27important relationship.
- 15:29They might lose their jobs.
- 15:31They may even become homeless.
- 15:33They may become entangled with
- 15:35the criminal justice system. And
- 15:36it's also a period that's
- 15:38at that's of highest risk
- 15:40for suicide,
- 15:42which is much higher than
- 15:43the risk for any kind
- 15:44of aggression, although it is
- 15:46also a period of highest
- 15:47risk for aggression against others.
- 15:50It's also a period when
- 15:51substance use might emerge as
- 15:53a comorbidity.
- 15:54And so this period has,
- 15:57brought a lot of interest
- 15:59from investigators
- 16:00for several decades now as
- 16:02an opportunity
- 16:04appeared in which
- 16:05if we could organize our
- 16:07interventions and deliver them in
- 16:08a way that's acceptable to
- 16:10young individuals,
- 16:11we might prevent much of
- 16:13the morbidity that accumulates over
- 16:14these first three to five
- 16:15years,
- 16:17which would mean that the
- 16:18plateau, which is the the
- 16:20right end of the yellow
- 16:21line where people usually end
- 16:23up, might be lifted and
- 16:25higher, ideally close to where
- 16:27the premorbid line is, but
- 16:28much higher than it is
- 16:29today.
- 16:31And substantially, this is the
- 16:33goal of early intervention services
- 16:35now around the world to
- 16:37deliver,
- 16:38the best treatments we can,
- 16:40organized in the best way
- 16:41we can, and as rapidly
- 16:43as we can after the
- 16:44first episode
- 16:45to lift that plateau and
- 16:47avoid a lot of the
- 16:48unnecessary morbidity
- 16:50and even mortality during this
- 16:52early phase of the illness.
- 16:54So this is the effort
- 16:56to not just improve the
- 16:57quality of care during the
- 16:59critical period, but to also
- 17:00reduce the DUP or the
- 17:02duration of untreated psychosis. The
- 17:04time from psychosis onset to
- 17:06the initiation
- 17:07of,
- 17:08what we would all consider
- 17:09to be best practice care.
- 17:11The two white lines,
- 17:13a and c that you
- 17:15can see are meant to
- 17:16signify that there is heterogeneity.
- 17:18There are some individuals who
- 17:19have a first episode, and
- 17:20as far as we can
- 17:21tell, do not have another.
- 17:24And we don't know much
- 17:25about them because they tend
- 17:26to not accumulate
- 17:28around clinical sites and even
- 17:30research centers. But there is
- 17:32a small minority of individuals
- 17:34who may not require ongoing
- 17:36care, and we still don't
- 17:37know how to predict who
- 17:39those will be.
- 17:40And there is another small
- 17:42minority, eight to nine percent,
- 17:43certainly less than ten percent,
- 17:45who are refractory
- 17:47to our current treatments. And
- 17:49what I mean by that
- 17:50is that we don't yet
- 17:51have good enough treatments to
- 17:53improve their symptoms,
- 17:55and often their level of
- 17:56functioning,
- 17:57but are deserving of our
- 17:59care and are often the
- 18:00individuals who are overrepresented
- 18:03in,
- 18:04community mental health centers and
- 18:05chronic care centers
- 18:07and who require assistance with,
- 18:09activities of daily living, with
- 18:11housing, and so on.
- 18:14You can go to the
- 18:14next slide,
- 18:17Laura. Oh, I I think,
- 18:18this just rehearses what I
- 18:19already said. So,
- 18:22we can go to the
- 18:23next slide.
- 18:26This is to make the
- 18:27point again that there is
- 18:28a lot of prognostic heterogeneity,
- 18:30and, these are individuals
- 18:34on the left,
- 18:36Ellen Sachs, John Nash, and
- 18:37Cecilia who
- 18:39whether or not they had
- 18:40an illness are extraordinary individuals
- 18:42who happen to be afflicted
- 18:44with a psychotic illness and
- 18:45have, either written about it
- 18:47or presented about it in
- 18:49ways that have improved all
- 18:50of our understandings of this
- 18:51illness.
- 18:53And on the bottom right
- 18:54is just to make the
- 18:55point that that,
- 18:56old image of,
- 18:58Felix Garcia, this is a
- 19:00flamenco dancer who was a
- 19:01friend of the painter Picasso,
- 19:04reflects a,
- 19:05is not reflective really
- 19:08of the course of most
- 19:09people with schizophrenia.
- 19:11However, it still occupies
- 19:14much of the public imagination
- 19:15and media representations of psychosis.
- 19:18As I mentioned, it's less
- 19:19probably than ten percent of
- 19:20individuals
- 19:22who will not respond to
- 19:23currently available treatments.
- 19:26But all too often, there's
- 19:27a a nihilism
- 19:29about what is possible for
- 19:30these individuals.
- 19:32And it's why I've presented
- 19:33these pictures from a time
- 19:35when we had really no
- 19:37evidence based interventions for people
- 19:39with these illnesses, and that
- 19:40is not the case anymore.
- 19:42Next slide.
- 19:45This is just to make
- 19:46the point that in usual
- 19:47systems of care,
- 19:50the most recent review suggest
- 19:52that less than one third
- 19:53will recover, and the definition
- 19:56of recovery here was quite
- 19:57stringent. It was returning to
- 19:59their premorbid level of functioning.
- 20:01But if one were to
- 20:02expand the notion of recovery
- 20:04to include,
- 20:06living a meaningful life in
- 20:07the community, having work or
- 20:09school, family, and engagement,
- 20:11that number is actually considerably
- 20:13higher,
- 20:14but much depends on the
- 20:15quality of access and the
- 20:17quality of care provided in
- 20:18the critical period to be
- 20:20able to reach higher levels.
- 20:22These illnesses are very costly,
- 20:24And as many of us
- 20:26will probably intuitively understand,
- 20:29the initial costs are driven
- 20:31by so called direct health
- 20:32care costs, emergency room visits,
- 20:35inpatient hospitalizations.
- 20:37But in fact, over the
- 20:38life course, the largest source
- 20:40of costs are indirect, and
- 20:41these are
- 20:43the cost of losing someone
- 20:44to the labor market who's
- 20:45not able to contribute to
- 20:47the economy.
- 20:48The cost of family caregiving,
- 20:50for example, individuals who have
- 20:51to leave work,
- 20:53or work less in order
- 20:54to care for a young
- 20:55individual with a poorly, managed
- 20:57or poorly treated illness.
- 20:59And by way of comparison,
- 21:01since these numbers can seem
- 21:02quite abstract,
- 21:04far more common affective illnesses,
- 21:06including depressive disorders,
- 21:09are not much lot greater
- 21:11in terms of cost than
- 21:13schizophrenia spectrum disorders that are
- 21:15far less common. And it's
- 21:16just to make the point
- 21:17that these illnesses
- 21:19amongst the serious mental illnesses
- 21:21punch well above their weight
- 21:23in terms of the burden
- 21:24they exact on individuals,
- 21:26on families, and on society
- 21:27at large.
- 21:28And so it's well worth
- 21:30our efforts to improve the
- 21:32outcomes that we can get
- 21:33from
- 21:34delivering what we know works
- 21:36to individuals in a timely
- 21:38way that's also acceptable to
- 21:40them. And that's mostly what
- 21:41I'll be following up to
- 21:43present evidence on,
- 21:45going forward. So we can
- 21:46go to the next slide.
- 21:51So yes. So they're they're
- 21:52distressing. They're disabling. They're costly.
- 21:55This idea of thinking of
- 21:57them as chronic illnesses of
- 21:58the young, I find useful.
- 22:01Most chronic illnesses like diabetes,
- 22:03for example,
- 22:05and congestive heart disease,
- 22:09usually onset later on. These
- 22:11are illnesses of of late,
- 22:13and middle age.
- 22:16Serious mental illnesses of which
- 22:17psychotic disorders are are one
- 22:19are different in that they
- 22:20strike individuals at a time
- 22:22of otherwise peak physical health.
- 22:25But they are often chronic,
- 22:27and they require
- 22:29attention,
- 22:30not least because they're striking
- 22:32individuals who are usually not
- 22:34in medical care for other
- 22:36reasons. They're often,
- 22:38have have stopped seeing their
- 22:39pediatricians
- 22:40and are not yet seeing
- 22:42their internists,
- 22:44but in fact, do need
- 22:45attention for illnesses that if
- 22:46not treated well will result
- 22:48in chronic disability that rivals
- 22:51and sometimes exceeds many other
- 22:52chronic medical illnesses.
- 22:55So now we we can
- 22:56move on to talk about
- 22:57good news and the opportunities
- 22:58we have. We can go
- 22:59to the next slide.
- 23:01I I wanted to spend
- 23:02this introductory session,
- 23:05presenting some of the evidence,
- 23:07which
- 23:07I'm assuming many of you
- 23:09may already be familiar with.
- 23:11But I think it's useful
- 23:12to talk a little bit
- 23:12about why it is,
- 23:14we believe this care pathway
- 23:16that we've developed at step
- 23:18represents,
- 23:19good evidence for what might
- 23:21improve these outcomes and lift
- 23:22that platter over time.
- 23:24Next slide.
- 23:27So this is to, describe
- 23:29the current state of of
- 23:30practice in Connecticut.
- 23:32Some of you may know
- 23:33of the Prime Clinic, which
- 23:35is our sister clinic here
- 23:36at Yale and also based
- 23:38at CMHC like STEP, which
- 23:40is focused on this period
- 23:41before the onset of the
- 23:43first episode.
- 23:44And this is in the
- 23:45main, a very active and
- 23:47exciting research enterprise in which
- 23:49many of us are involved
- 23:51to both try and develop
- 23:53better ways to predict who
- 23:55will turn out to have
- 23:56a psychotic illness and then
- 23:57to find ways to intervene
- 23:59to either delay or prevent,
- 24:01the onset of these illnesses.
- 24:03This is obviously,
- 24:05these are these are not
- 24:06interventions that are are yet
- 24:08ready for implementation,
- 24:09But we hope in the
- 24:10future to be able to
- 24:12have evidence to be able
- 24:14to engage in this kind
- 24:15of preventative,
- 24:16initiative.
- 24:18The the current,
- 24:19state of the art in
- 24:20terms of delivery
- 24:21begins after the first episode
- 24:24where steps early intervention service
- 24:26seeks to both reduce delays
- 24:28and also improve
- 24:30the quality of care
- 24:32and thereby improve outcomes.
- 24:34And then, of course, we
- 24:35have many excellent,
- 24:38service providers for chronic psychosis
- 24:40care across the state.
- 24:43And based on on data
- 24:45published from around the world,
- 24:47it appears that under usual
- 24:48systems of care that do
- 24:50not have early intervention services,
- 24:53most individuals
- 24:54begin to really engage with
- 24:55regular outpatient care
- 24:58in in the period of
- 24:59a plateau all the way
- 25:00to the right. That is
- 25:01to say, after after a
- 25:03time in which they've already
- 25:05lost
- 25:06much of the psychosocial
- 25:07function,
- 25:09that in the usual course
- 25:10of care, they will begin
- 25:12to recover very, very slowly
- 25:14over time. So the usual
- 25:15course of these illnesses is
- 25:17actually one of recovery,
- 25:19not deterioration.
- 25:20However, the recovery,
- 25:22begins from much lower plateau
- 25:24and proceeds often very slowly,
- 25:26depriving many of these individuals
- 25:28of the highest level of
- 25:29functioning
- 25:30and the most,
- 25:32the highest quality of life
- 25:33and social engagement they could
- 25:34have had
- 25:36if they had been,
- 25:37given often
- 25:39substantially the same kinds of
- 25:40treatment earlier in the course
- 25:42of the illness. And we'll
- 25:43I'll say more about this,
- 25:45in the upcoming,
- 25:46slides.
- 25:49This is a a summary
- 25:51slide that I'll provide a
- 25:52little more detail on. But,
- 25:54the good news is that
- 25:56both early detection that is
- 25:58simply
- 25:59providing care earlier without necessarily
- 26:02enriching the care in any
- 26:03way has a durable effect
- 26:05on outcome that's measurable ten
- 26:07and even twenty years later.
- 26:09And this was based on
- 26:10a study done in Norway
- 26:12where,
- 26:13outpatient care that will be
- 26:14very recognizable to all of
- 26:16us was just delivered much,
- 26:17much earlier after psychosis onset.
- 26:21Also, there is, more evidence
- 26:23because these are studies that
- 26:25are somewhat easier to do
- 26:27that even if one did
- 26:28not reduce,
- 26:29the duration of untreated psychosis,
- 26:31that is to say without
- 26:33early detection,
- 26:34simply improving the quality of
- 26:36care,
- 26:37after
- 26:39individuals
- 26:40self present or are referred
- 26:42to to outpatient services can
- 26:44also improve outcomes. And I've
- 26:46listed some of the studies
- 26:47for those who would like
- 26:48to to look up the
- 26:49references.
- 26:50The OPUS trial in the
- 26:51United Kingdom,
- 26:53I'm sorry, in Denmark, the
- 26:55Lambert study in the United
- 26:56Kingdom. And then in the
- 26:57US, the first two studies
- 26:59that,
- 27:00tested
- 27:02a specialized
- 27:03team based approach to care,
- 27:04which was our clinic in
- 27:06step, and then the RAISE
- 27:08studies that did this over
- 27:10twenty two different
- 27:12sites across the US.
- 27:14All are showing consistently
- 27:16improvements in outcome measured at
- 27:18two years after initiation of
- 27:20treatment. I can go to
- 27:21the next slide.
- 27:24So a little more about
- 27:25us.
- 27:26We
- 27:27planned a pragmatic trial,
- 27:30that ran from two thousand
- 27:31seven to two thousand thirteen,
- 27:33and we we built it
- 27:35so that it would recruit
- 27:36very broadly. We provide interventions
- 27:38that we thought would be
- 27:39feasible at a place like
- 27:40CMHC
- 27:41in ambulatory,
- 27:43clinics,
- 27:44and we measured outcomes that
- 27:45we thought would be most
- 27:46relevant for,
- 27:48the the kinds of,
- 27:49evaluations that these services should
- 27:52be subjected to.
- 27:55The clinic is based at
- 27:56CMHC, which as many of
- 27:57you may know is a
- 27:58public academic collaboration.
- 28:01And
- 28:02we,
- 28:03when we initiated the service,
- 28:06decided,
- 28:07to in to be as
- 28:08inclusive as possible
- 28:10across
- 28:11barriers
- 28:12of insurance,
- 28:13and catchment. So step,
- 28:15then as it does now,
- 28:17admits individuals,
- 28:19whether or not they have
- 28:20private or public insurance.
- 28:23And, initially, we admitted individuals
- 28:25anywhere in the state. They
- 28:26didn't have to be in
- 28:27the catchment of CMHC.
- 28:30And we also,
- 28:31admitted individuals who were sixteen
- 28:33and seventeen years old in
- 28:35order to capture the the
- 28:37widest range of individuals who
- 28:39were truly in the first
- 28:40episode of these illnesses.
- 28:42Next slide.
- 28:45This is just a a
- 28:46reference slide for those who
- 28:48want to look back later
- 28:49on the design of the
- 28:50trial.
- 28:51The point,
- 28:52here was that while the
- 28:54initial studies
- 28:56in Denmark and the UK
- 28:58had tested a very intensive
- 29:00approach to treatment, essentially, act
- 29:02level care
- 29:04where clinician to patient ratios
- 29:06were ten or or twelve
- 29:07to one. I'm sorry. Patient
- 29:09to clinician ratios were ten
- 29:10or twelve to one. What
- 29:12we tested here was a
- 29:13pragmatic study where, clinicians at
- 29:16CMHC were often carrying
- 29:18a patient loads of anywhere
- 29:19from forty to fifty individuals,
- 29:22of whom a subset were
- 29:23first episode psychosis patients.
- 29:26And we randomized
- 29:28all
- 29:32people presenting this to either
- 29:34come into care at step
- 29:35or to be randomized to
- 29:36the kind of care they
- 29:37would ordinarily get depending on
- 29:39their insurance status. So a
- 29:40significant number were referred out
- 29:42into the community if they
- 29:44had commercial insurance,
- 29:45while those who were eligible
- 29:47for CMHC care received care
- 29:49elsewhere in other teams in
- 29:50the building.
- 29:52Next slide.
- 29:55So this is a summary
- 29:56slide of our outcomes, which
- 29:57we have published for those,
- 29:59who wanna look at the
- 30:00details
- 30:01of the design and the
- 30:02results.
- 30:03But I'm presenting here just
- 30:04the two main outcomes. The
- 30:06pairs of,
- 30:08bars on the left
- 30:09are hospitalization
- 30:11outcomes
- 30:13and describe how both in
- 30:15step and in usual treatment,
- 30:16there was a reduction in
- 30:17hospitalization
- 30:18as you might expect when
- 30:20individuals enter care. But the
- 30:22reduction in step was significantly
- 30:24greater
- 30:25over the first year.
- 30:26And interestingly,
- 30:28on the outcomes that patients
- 30:29and families cared more about,
- 30:31which is
- 30:31vocational engagement, so were they
- 30:34engaged in at least part
- 30:35time school or work or
- 30:36better,
- 30:38the fraction of individuals
- 30:39who remained,
- 30:41in the labor
- 30:42force was significantly higher in
- 30:44step. So only eight percent
- 30:47had essentially dropped out and
- 30:48stopped looking for work or
- 30:49school, whereas this number was
- 30:51up to a third
- 30:53in people in usual care,
- 30:54which is striking given that
- 30:56these were typically individuals in
- 30:58their early twenties.
- 31:00Next slide.
- 31:04For those who are interested
- 31:05in the in the costs,
- 31:07we I am showing here
- 31:08a slide describing
- 31:09the drive the biggest driver
- 31:11of direct cost, which is
- 31:12hospitalization.
- 31:13And on the left is
- 31:14a steady reduction
- 31:16every six months after entry
- 31:18into step, compared to the
- 31:20six months prior.
- 31:22This occurred as well in
- 31:24usual treatment, which again is
- 31:26a finding when individuals begin
- 31:28care early in the course,
- 31:29but it was not nearly
- 31:30as dramatic and remained quite
- 31:32high even one year after
- 31:34entry into usual care.
- 31:38Next slide.
- 31:40So it's hard slide to
- 31:41see all the results, but
- 31:42the the main point to
- 31:43make here is that,
- 31:45in a review of ten
- 31:47experimental studies from around the
- 31:49world of which STEP was
- 31:51one,
- 31:52The data suggests in this
- 31:53review that
- 31:55these kinds of specialty early
- 31:57intervention services
- 31:59have positive effects on a
- 32:00variety of outcomes, including symptoms,
- 32:03psychiatric hospitalization,
- 32:05and also global functioning and
- 32:07measures of quality of life.
- 32:08So,
- 32:10the effects the positive effects
- 32:12of receiving care within these
- 32:14specialty teams are pervasive,
- 32:16and big enough in size
- 32:18to be worthy of an
- 32:19investment,
- 32:21by health care services.
- 32:23Next slide.
- 32:28Another review. And,
- 32:30here again, the focus was
- 32:32on the risk of relapse
- 32:33or readmission,
- 32:35offered variety of studies from
- 32:36around the world. And STEP
- 32:38was with its focus really
- 32:40in the US on reducing
- 32:41relapse and rehospitalization,
- 32:44given
- 32:44how expensive and disruptive these
- 32:46can be, was a positive
- 32:48outlier and, again, demonstrating a
- 32:50reduction,
- 32:52in favor of our model
- 32:53of care versus usual treatment.
- 32:56And, again, I've left the
- 32:57reference there for those who
- 32:58want to look at the
- 32:58details. Thanks, Laura. You can
- 33:00go to the next slide.
- 33:03So,
- 33:04just a summary of sort
- 33:05of the evolution and to
- 33:06make the point that,
- 33:08while the idea of doing
- 33:09early intervention
- 33:10is not new,
- 33:12in fact, it goes back
- 33:13to the nineteen hundreds when,
- 33:16these illnesses were first described.
- 33:18It was in two thousand
- 33:20and five when two
- 33:22experimental studies demonstrated
- 33:24that
- 33:25these kinds of services can
- 33:27have a significant
- 33:28impact on outcomes.
- 33:31It took another ten years
- 33:32before we were able to
- 33:34adapt and replicate those studies
- 33:36in the US.
- 33:38And since then,
- 33:40we have good good data
- 33:42on costs
- 33:43and,
- 33:44the the health economic benefits
- 33:46of investing in these kinds
- 33:48of services
- 33:49for these patients.
- 33:50So we have data on
- 33:52efficacy,
- 33:53on effectiveness, which is the
- 33:55more real world question.
- 33:57We have data on cost,
- 33:59and the and whether the
- 34:00investments made are are worth
- 34:02it. I think the big
- 34:03question
- 34:04now,
- 34:05especially in the US is,
- 34:06can these models that have
- 34:08demonstrated impact,
- 34:09be scaled across community settings?
- 34:13And I list a few
- 34:14states in the US that
- 34:15have led on statewide
- 34:17implementations
- 34:18of these models of care.
- 34:19And we're very excited to
- 34:21be
- 34:24thinking and hopefully launching
- 34:26a Connecticut
- 34:27based response that,
- 34:29under this learning collaborative,
- 34:32will I hope emerge over
- 34:33the next few years where
- 34:34we can deliver on improved
- 34:36access
- 34:37and treatment outcomes,
- 34:39for these individuals.
- 34:41Next slide.
- 34:43So I wanted to say
- 34:44a little bit about,
- 34:48a study we did at
- 34:50at STEP,
- 34:51to improve
- 34:53access to care,
- 34:55both in terms of the
- 34:56duration of untreated psychosis, but
- 34:58also the quality of the
- 34:59pathways,
- 35:00to care.
- 35:02And we,
- 35:03completed what is the first
- 35:05US experimental test of an
- 35:07early detection,
- 35:09campaign that that was targeting
- 35:12ten towns around step to
- 35:13reduce delays to care. The
- 35:15campaign was called mind map,
- 35:16and you can see here
- 35:17a couple of the,
- 35:19sort of pictures of of
- 35:21participants who helped us in
- 35:22the campaign.
- 35:23Next slide.
- 35:28The
- 35:29the study was,
- 35:31a replication of of a
- 35:32previous study in Norway, which,
- 35:35is the only other
- 35:36study now that has demonstrated
- 35:39a reduction in the duration
- 35:40of untreated psychosis
- 35:42across an entire community.
- 35:44And
- 35:45like the Norwegian study,
- 35:47we had a site which
- 35:49was STEP in Southern Connecticut
- 35:51where we
- 35:52ran a campaign to reduce
- 35:53delays to care. And we
- 35:55had a control site,
- 35:56which was a a clinic
- 35:58much like ours in Metropolitan
- 36:00Boston,
- 36:02which provided very similar care,
- 36:04but unlike us did not
- 36:05run an early detection campaign.
- 36:08And the idea here was
- 36:09to be able to demonstrate
- 36:10that the campaign was responsible
- 36:12for
- 36:13the improvements in Pathways to
- 36:14Care and DUP,
- 36:16and this wasn't some other,
- 36:19unrelated variable either in terms
- 36:21of
- 36:22changes in health care policy
- 36:24or insurance coverage that could
- 36:26explain these these differences between
- 36:28the sites.
- 36:30Next slide.
- 36:33So the the campaign that
- 36:34we ran that some of
- 36:35you may have heard of
- 36:36included three major components. One
- 36:38was, focused on the public,
- 36:40using social and mass media.
- 36:42The another leg was focused
- 36:44on professionals,
- 36:46primary care and behavioral health
- 36:48care agencies,
- 36:50who would be referral sources
- 36:51to our clinic.
- 36:53And the third was really
- 36:54a
- 36:55performance improvement
- 36:57approach to reduce wait times
- 36:58at our front door and
- 36:59bring people into care rapidly
- 37:02after they were referred to
- 37:03us. Next slide.
- 37:06There's here are some
- 37:08pictures really of the various
- 37:10kinds of messaging we used
- 37:12in social and mass media.
- 37:13Top left is our website
- 37:14we had developed.
- 37:16Top right is a description
- 37:17of our care model,
- 37:19and then various messages that
- 37:20we put out in media,
- 37:22to increase awareness, but also
- 37:24to increase referrals of individuals
- 37:27to our service. Next slide.
- 37:32On the top is,
- 37:33we use skins on local
- 37:35buses to
- 37:37transmit our message that people
- 37:39could call a referral number
- 37:41and,
- 37:42be provided information
- 37:44and an active assistance to
- 37:46enter into care in our
- 37:47clinic.
- 37:48We were on local TV
- 37:49and local newspapers.
- 37:51Go to the next slide.
- 37:55And
- 37:56in our professional outreach and
- 37:57detailing, we identified several distinct
- 37:59sectors in our region
- 38:01that we did outreach,
- 38:04to and also then conducted
- 38:07frequent detailing interactions, phone calls,
- 38:09and visits to people's workplaces
- 38:12to inform them about the
- 38:13work in our clinic and
- 38:14to encourage them to refer
- 38:16individuals to us, as soon
- 38:17as possible.
- 38:19Next slide.
- 38:21Some pictures of our campaign
- 38:23launch top right with,
- 38:25with leadership
- 38:26from the state, including the
- 38:28Department of Mental Health, the
- 38:30governor's office, our own department,
- 38:32and then many public events
- 38:34in which we were involved
- 38:35to
- 38:36interact with the public, educate
- 38:38them, and then enable them
- 38:39to make rapid referrals to
- 38:40our service.
- 38:42Next slide.
- 38:45So this is, I I
- 38:46could say a lot more
- 38:47about the details of the
- 38:48campaign. This is sort of
- 38:49the bottom line is that
- 38:50we were able to
- 38:52have
- 38:52the duration of untreated psychosis
- 38:55across ten target towns in
- 38:57our region.
- 38:58I give them in different
- 38:59units for people who prefer
- 39:01thinking in days versus weeks.
- 39:03But by way of context,
- 39:04our reduction from ten to
- 39:06five months was very similar
- 39:08in size to
- 39:09the the the study in
- 39:11Norway.
- 39:12And we know from the
- 39:13largest study in the US
- 39:15that
- 39:16the average or median DUP
- 39:18is closer to seventy four
- 39:20weeks. So while we started
- 39:22off,
- 39:24in our region
- 39:25at less than that about
- 39:26forty five weeks,
- 39:29we were able to reduce
- 39:30it considerably,
- 39:31and we are
- 39:33happily now publishing
- 39:35results showing that this reduction
- 39:37translated
- 39:38to improved presentations
- 39:40to our clinic
- 39:41and also,
- 39:43improvements in outcomes six months
- 39:45and a year later.
- 39:47You can go to the
- 39:48next slide.
- 39:51Oh, and and I put
- 39:51this up here also because
- 39:53we learned many lessons
- 39:55about,
- 39:56the pathways to care, the
- 39:58the the routes that people
- 40:00took on
- 40:02their way to our clinic,
- 40:04through
- 40:05questions we asked of them
- 40:06and their family members and
- 40:07referral sources.
- 40:09And this network graph is
- 40:10just a visual display of
- 40:12a significant,
- 40:13number of people who came
- 40:15to us where from the
- 40:16the time of the onset
- 40:17of symptoms
- 40:18to the first help seeking
- 40:20individual, which is often the
- 40:21family member,
- 40:23pathways, as you can see,
- 40:24often ran first to the
- 40:26ED, the emergency department, and
- 40:28then an inpatient unit, and
- 40:30then across,
- 40:31the graph to STEP. But
- 40:33there were, of course, myriad
- 40:34other ways in which people
- 40:35might,
- 40:36seek help multiple times from
- 40:39many different actors in a
- 40:40local network before they are
- 40:42routed to a clinic like
- 40:43STEP in a region. So
- 40:44it it illustrates, I think,
- 40:45what many of you, I'm
- 40:47sure, have already heard in
- 40:48the histories of your patients
- 40:50that,
- 40:51go getting to care and
- 40:53finding out where to go
- 40:54to care can be quite
- 40:55a torturous journey that can
- 40:57take a lot of
- 40:59interactions, involve many different members
- 41:01of a local community
- 41:03who can all be organized,
- 41:06to help improve
- 41:08and hasten these pathways,
- 41:10but who can also
- 41:11present in some ways in
- 41:13their own way as
- 41:14barriers or sources of delay
- 41:17if they do not understand
- 41:18what they're confronting and cannot
- 41:20cooperate to help a person,
- 41:22access care quickly.
- 41:24Next slide, please.
- 41:28So to summarize,
- 41:29I I have rushed through
- 41:31a lot of,
- 41:32work done over now almost
- 41:34fifteen years, but,
- 41:36the good news is that
- 41:37we have been able to
- 41:38demonstrate
- 41:40utilizing
- 41:40tools that, we believe exist
- 41:43and are available to all
- 41:44of us
- 41:45to improve both the outcomes
- 41:46of care that is the
- 41:47quality,
- 41:48but also
- 41:50reduce delays and improve access
- 41:52pathways
- 41:53within this defined catchment,
- 41:56around step.
- 41:58And we think that this
- 41:59partnership
- 42:00that allowed us to,
- 42:02apply for grants and test
- 42:04these models of care
- 42:07has greater relevance for other
- 42:09regions of the state. And
- 42:10so this is really the
- 42:11question that we are confronting,
- 42:13and we hope to work
- 42:14with all of you around
- 42:16whether we can leverage this
- 42:17to improve access and outcomes
- 42:19statewide.
- 42:21I think I have just
- 42:22one more slide.
- 42:25So we think of what
- 42:26we've done in these ten
- 42:28towns,
- 42:29around step as a kind
- 42:31of prototype or a model
- 42:32that we've been running now
- 42:33since twenty fifteen.
- 42:35And the different modules that
- 42:37Laura,
- 42:38initially outlined and will be
- 42:40returning to in this seminar
- 42:43really describe the care pathway
- 42:45that we have constructed
- 42:46that we have announced
- 42:48seeking to deliver to every
- 42:51eligible individual in these ten
- 42:53towns.
- 42:54And in trying to do
- 42:55this, we see our early
- 42:57intervention service as really an
- 42:59integrator
- 43:00of the activities of all
- 43:01these different
- 43:03stakeholders
- 43:04across education,
- 43:06criminal justice, social welfare,
- 43:09to both engage them in
- 43:10helping us improve
- 43:12access pathways to our service
- 43:14in the region,
- 43:15but also assisting us as
- 43:17they go through care in
- 43:18terms of serving as resources
- 43:20for, our patients,
- 43:22as they receive our care
- 43:23in these modules and then
- 43:25transfer back to community based
- 43:27care,
- 43:28close to where they live
- 43:29in the region.
- 43:32I think we have another
- 43:34slide. Oh, yes. So
- 43:36so,
- 43:37this is something we'll return
- 43:38to in the last session
- 43:40of the course.
- 43:42These sessions are primarily to
- 43:43introduce you to our care
- 43:44pathway
- 43:45and to have you understand,
- 43:48why and how we do
- 43:49what we do at STEP.
- 43:51And, of course, then to
- 43:52consider
- 43:53to what degree this is
- 43:55relevant to improving care across
- 43:57the state.
- 43:59And we think of the
- 44:00learning health collaborative
- 44:01as
- 44:02a vehicle to engage with
- 44:04all of you in this
- 44:05partnership.
- 44:07This map here,
- 44:09has color coded the five
- 44:11different regions across the state
- 44:12that, Demus defines.
- 44:15And based on census data
- 44:17and epidemiologic
- 44:18studies,
- 44:19we have,
- 44:20tried to guesstimate how many
- 44:22new cases of psychosis
- 44:24we might expect in each
- 44:25region based on the age
- 44:27distribution
- 44:28of the populations.
- 44:29So on the bottom left
- 44:31is the example of region
- 44:32two where STEP is,
- 44:34where we can get a
- 44:35rough estimate of about ninety
- 44:37four cases a year, which
- 44:39would mean close to about
- 44:40three hundred cases that would
- 44:42be eligible
- 44:43for a an early intervention
- 44:45service that took individuals
- 44:47within the first three years,
- 44:48say, of psychosis onset.
- 44:51The red,
- 44:53icons
- 44:54are all the local mental
- 44:55health agencies, the lead mental
- 44:57health agencies, and which we
- 44:59see as the regional experts
- 45:01on behavioral health services across
- 45:03the state that we're hoping
- 45:04to partner with to think
- 45:06through how we can
- 45:07adapt and disseminate
- 45:10this this prototype model really
- 45:13to,
- 45:14improve
- 45:15both access and care outcomes
- 45:18for all individuals,
- 45:19no matter where they happen
- 45:21to be in the state.
- 45:23That's that's the the,
- 45:25ambition of,
- 45:26the learning how collaborative over
- 45:28the long term. And we're
- 45:29hoping over the next few
- 45:30sessions to give you
- 45:33a more granular sense of
- 45:34how we actually provide care
- 45:37at step in these ten
- 45:38towns and improve access.
- 45:40So you'll be in a
- 45:41position to think about how
- 45:42you might think about this
- 45:44in your own region,
- 45:46where
- 45:47your agencies,
- 45:49really are the key node,
- 45:51for
- 45:52potentially
- 45:53organizing care in the region,
- 45:55but certainly delivering care to
- 45:56these individuals.
- 45:58So I
- 45:59I think we're good for
- 46:01time, hopefully, for enough questions,
- 46:02but I'll stop there.