Primary Care Patients with Depression Are Less Accepting of Treatment Than Those Seen by Mental Health Specialists

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 991-1000

  Van Voorhees, Benjamin W ^a,f   Cooper, Lisa A ^a,f   Rost, Kathryn M ^b   Nutting, Paul ^b   Rubenstein, Lisa V ^c,d,e   Meredith, Lisa ^d   Wang, Nae Yuh ^a,f   Ford, Daniel E ^a,f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Depression; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346494545     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.21060.x     Document Type: Article

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