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Depression
Depressive disorders
are leading causes of disability worldwide. Efficacious treatments
exist, but many persons, especially Latinos and African Americans, do
not receive evidence-based care for depression. In primary care
settings, rates of detection of depression and of use detection of
depression and of use of evidence-based treatments are low to
moderate. Disease management interventions can improve outcomes for
depressed patients over 6-28 months, and yield favorable
cost-effectiveness ratios relative to usual care. Depressed patients
who are Latino or African American have poorer outcomes than whites
under usual care, but practice intervention can improve outcome more
for Latinos and African Americans, reducing health outcome
disparities.
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Community Health Improvement Collaboration: Building
Community-Academic Partnerships to Reduce
Disparities"...
Archives of General Psychiatry, Volume 61, Number 4,
"Five
Year Impact of Quality Improvement for
Depression,"
Kenneth B. Wells et al., April 7, 2004.
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