Managing depression in home health care: A randomized clinical trial

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 81-104

  Ell, Kathleen ^a   Unützer, Jürgen ^b   Aranda, Maria ^a   Gibbs, Nancy E ^c   Lee, Pey Jiuan ^a   Xie, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Southern California Permanente Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Depression screening; Home health care; Older adults; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34548329252     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v26n03_05     Document Type: Article

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