作者
L Miriam Dickinson, Kathryn Rost, Paul A Nutting, Carl E Elliott, Robert D Keeley, Harold Pincus
发表日期
2005/1/1
期刊
The Annals of Family Medicine
卷号
3
期号
1
页码范围
15-22
出版商
The Annals of Family Medicine
简介
PURPOSE Depression care management for primary care patients results in sustained improvement in clinical outcomes with diminishing costs over time. Clinical benefits, however, are concentrated primarily in patients who report to their primary care clinicians psychological rather than exclusively physical symptoms. This study proposes to determine whether the intervention affects outpatient costs differentially when comparing patients who have psychological with patients who have physical complaints.
METHODS We undertook a group-randomized controlled trial (RCT) of depression comparing intervention with usual care in 12 primary care practices. Intervention practices encouraged depressed patients to engage in active treatment, using nurses to provide regularly scheduled care management for 24 months. The study sample included 200 adults beginning a new depression treatment episode where …
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