What Is the Recipe for PCBH? Proposed Resources, Processes, and Expected Outcomes

What is the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model of service delivery? Clinician innovators, administrators, and researchers have continued to refine the answerto this question. In the same way a recipe for mac n cheese provides the resourcesneeded (i.e., ingredients), processes to make the dish, and expected outcomes (e.g.,number of servings), a comprehensive operational definition for PCBH is needed to helpimprove the rigor of research being conducted. This recipe can also help clinicians/administrators identify a basic recipe for PCBH that standardizes the necessarycomponents and amounts to achieve the expected outcomes. In this editorial, we providea comprehensive operational recipe for PCBH based on current research.