Diagnosed depression among medicare home health patients: National prevalence estimates and key characteristics

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 538-540

  Shao, Huibo ^a   Peng, Timothy R ^b   Bruce, Martha L ^a   Bao, Yuhua ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b New York Hospice and Palliative Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HOME HEALTH AGENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICARE; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 79955664794     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.62.5.pss6205_0538     Document Type: Article

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