Racial and ethnic variation in home healthcare nurse depression assessment of older minority patients

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1140-1144

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

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric depression; Mental health disparities; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; NURSE; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 2; RACE DIFFERENCE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MASS SCREENING; NURSING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

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

EID: 84907895689     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.4001     Document Type: Article

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