General Practitioners' Choices and Their Determinants When Starting Treatment for Major Depression: A Cross Sectional, Randomized Case-Vignette Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Dumesnil, Hélène ^a,b,c   Cortaredona, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Verdoux, Hélène ^d,e   Sebbah, Rémy ^f   Paraponaris, Alain ^a,b,c   Verger, Pierre ^a,b,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE RÉGIONAL DE LA SANTÉ PROVENCE ALPES CÔTE D AZUR   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f Union régionale des professionnels de sante Medecins liberaux Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICATION ERROR; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZATION; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIGNETTE; WHITE COLLAR WORKER;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84871261078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052429     Document Type: Article

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