The broad linkage categories were "direct collaborative activities", "agreed guidelines", "communication systems" and "service agreements".
For this reason we thematically grouped strategies into four broad categories that comprised "direct collaborative activities", "agreed guidelines", "communication systems" and "service agreements".
Regardless of who led, both groups described each stage of the process as collaborative with agreed goals and action plans reflecting patients' priorities and unique personal circumstances.
In this study a partnership is defined as a collaborative arrangement, agreed between the parties (in this case, MOH and researchers in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia), established to achieve common objectives and with agreed roles and inputs from the parties.
The strongest body of evidence was for those interventions that used a combination of broad linkage categories that included at least one component from each of the "direct collaborative activities", "agreed guidelines" and "communication systems" suite.
Internationally, different initiatives are coming from public health policy, practice, and research institutes, and actors aim to build collaborative networks, agreeing to long-term commitment and time investment.
While resistance can be overcome by empowering staff to make the change themselves, [ 21] attempts to give staff ownership for driving the change in this intervention (through collaborative working, agreeing plans of action and establishing link persons) was not embraced.
There is strong evidence to support collaborative primary mental health care for people with depression when linkages involve "direct collaborative activity", plus "agreed guidelines" and "communication systems".
Two patients were particularly collaborative and therefore agreed to being stimulated on both hemispheres (Supplementary Fig. 1S).
Analysis by the smaller number of broad linkage categories revealed that the most common combination with positive outcomes was "direct collaborative activities" plus "agreed guidelines" plus "communication systems".
