Evidence-Based Care for Depression is Clinically Effective for Minority Patients (2/07/05)
White patients are more likely than minority patients to receive appropriate care for depression. However, evidence-based care for depression is equally effective in reducing depressive disorders for minority and white patients. Following a quality improvement initiative to provide evidence-based depression care at six managed primary care practices, minority patients who received appropriate care, compared with those who did not, had lower rates of probable depressive disorder at 6 months (20.5 vs. 70.5 percent). The findings were similar for white patients (24.3 percent vs. 71.2 percent).
Read report abstract at: http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/61/8/827.
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