Racial and ethnic differences in receipt of antidepressants and psychotherapy by veterans with chronic depression

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-200

  Quiñones, Ana R ^a,b   Thielke, Stephen M ^a,c   Beaver, Kristine A ^a   Trivedi, Ranak B ^a   Williams, Emily C ^a,d   Fan, Vincent S ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHRONIC DEPRESSION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RACE DIFFERENCE; VETERAN; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 84893644788     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201300057     Document Type: Article

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