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Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

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01-05-2006 | Original Paper

Depression Diagnosis and Antidepressant Treatment among Depressed VA Primary Care Patients

Authors: Chuan-Fen Liu, Duncan G. Campbell, Edmund F. Chaney, Yu-Fang Li, Mary McDonell, Stephan D. Fihn

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 3/2006

Abstract

This study examined the extent to which 3559 VA primary care patients with depression symptomatology received depression diagnoses and/or antidepressant prescriptions. Symptomatology was classified as mild (13%), moderate (42%) or severe (45%) based on SCL-20 scores. Diagnosis and treatment was related to depression severity and other patient characteristics. Overall, 44% were neither diagnosed nor treated. Only 22% of those neither diagnosed nor treated for depression received treatment for other psychopathology. Depression treatment performance measures dependent on diagnoses and antidepressant prescriptions from administrative databases exclude undiagnosed patients with significant, treatable, symptomatology.

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Title: Depression Diagnosis and Antidepressant Treatment among Depressed VA Primary Care Patients
Authors: Chuan-Fen Liu
Duncan G. Campbell
Edmund F. Chaney
Yu-Fang Li
Mary McDonell
Stephan D. Fihn
Publication date: 01-05-2006
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 3/2006
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-006-0043-5

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