Depression

Reports summarize depression research from Georgetown University

Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, January 17th, 2009

"Little is known about how patient and primary care physician characteristics are associated with quality of depression care. The authors conducted structured interviews of 404 randomly selected primary care physicians after their interaction with CD-ROM vignettes of actors portraying depressed patients," scientists in the United States report.

"Vignettes varied along the dimensions of medical comorbidity, attributions regarding the cause of depression, style, race/ethnicity, and gender. Results show that physicians showed wide variation in treatment decisions; for example, most did not inquire about suicidal ideation, and most did not state that they would inform the...

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Source: Mental Health Law Weekly (2009-01-17)

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