Does screening for depression in primary care improve outcome?

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 345-352

  Culpepper, Larry ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Care management; Depression; Generalized anxiety disorder; M 3; Measurement based care; Multimorbidity; Multiproblem; My Mood Monitor; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Primary care; Screening; Substance abuse; Treatment monitoring

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SERTRALINE;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MANAGED CARE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST;

COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865641753     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0275-x     Document Type: Article

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