Depression treatment disparities among older minority home healthcare patients

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 519-522

  Pickett, Yolonda R ^a,b   Greenberg, Rebecca L ^a   Bazelais, Kisha N ^a   Bruce, Martha L ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric depression; Home healthcare; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HOME HEALTH AGENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 2; PRESCRIPTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOME CARE; MINORITY HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY HEALTH; NEW YORK CITY;

EID: 84901619977     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.078     Document Type: Article

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