Care Managers for Perinatal Depression
May 2, 2013 | Story
Lancaster General Health added depression care managers to the team of perinatal providers in order to ensure attention is paid to this disorder.
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Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and System Strategies
September 16, 2010 | Program Result Report
Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and System Strategies aimed to spur health care organizations to use a chronic care model to recognize and treat depression, and to develop financial and other incentives to support the use of the model.
Addressing Stigma of Depression in Latino Primary Care Patients
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors of this study created a checklist that evaluates the social stigma of depression among Latino patients the study occurred at two large outpatient primary care clinics in Los Angeles.
Depression Care in the United States
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The lowest rates of treatment—pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy—were found among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Mexican Americans with depression.
Those Most in Need Often Don't Respond to Treatment for Depression
October 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
During 1998 and 1999, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound held a conference on improving care for depression in organized health care systems.
Depressed Patients Can Thrive Under Managed Care, Study Finds
August 16, 2004 | Program Result Report
The RAND Corporation used data from a previously published study of depressed patients to explore how the physician-patient relationship involving depressed patients varies under different managed care arrangements.
Assessing Depression Treatment Guidelines at Two Federal Facilities
February 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 1999, staff a Silver Spring, Md.-based health care consulting firm organized a conference to select performance measures for treatment of depression to be used by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense.
Agency Tests Protocol for Depression Screening and Referral for Adult Day Center Clients
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2002, staff at North Country Aging Services in Edina, Minn., collaborated with four adult day centers to develop and test a screening and referral protocol for depression among elderly clients.
Predicting Future Risk of Depressive Episode in Adolescents
November 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study created the Chicago Adolescent Depression Risk Assessment, designed to help primary care physicians foresee depression in teens one year in advance, enabling appropriate intervention with kids even mildly at risk and potentially heading off development of the disorder.
Randomised Trial of Monitoring, Feedback, and Management of Care by Telephone to Improve Treatment of Depression in Primary Care
February 26, 2000 | Journal Article
The effectiveness of two programs to improve the treatment of acute depression in primary care.