PURPOSE Depression care management for primary care patients results in sustained
improvement in clinical outcomes with diminishing costs over time. Clinical benefits …

PURPOSE Although potentially costly, enhancing primary care depression management on
an ongoing basis results in substantial long-term treatment effectiveness. The purpose of …

PURPOSE Recent studies examining depression disease management report
improvements in short-term outcomes, but less is known about whether improvements are …

Depression is often diagnosed and treated in primary care settings. Organizational and
systems interventions that restructure primary care practices and train staff have been shown …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the incremental cost-effectiveness of a quality improvement
depression intervention (enhanced care) in primary care settings relative to usual care …

Background: Re-Engineering Systems for Primary Care Treatment of Depression
(RESPECT-D) sought to improve patient outcomes by disseminating the 3-component …

Resumen SMIT, Annet; TIEMENS, Bea G. y ORMEL, Johan. Improving long-term outcome of
depression in primary care: a review of RCTs with psychological and supportive …

Objective: To review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating chronic disease
management models for depression in primary care and to look at the implications for …

We describe the daily work activities of 13 Depression Clinical Specialists (DCSs) at 7
national sites who served as care managers in an effective multisite randomized trial of a …

Complex interventions, which have been shown to improve primary care depression
outcomes, are difficult to disseminate to routine practice settings. To address this problem …