A stepped care programme for depression management: an uncontrolled pre-post study in primary and secondary care in The Netherlands
Introduction: Stepped care strategies are potentially effective to organise integrated care but unknown is whether they function well in practice. This paper evaluates the implementation of a stepped care programme for depression in primary care and secondary care. Theory and methods: We developed a stepped care algorithm for diagnostics and treatment of depression, supported by a liaison-consultation function. In a 2½ year study with pre-post design in a pilot region, adherence to the protocol was assessed by interviewing 28 caregivers of 235 patients with mild, moderate, or severe major depr... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | International Journal of Integrated Care, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2008) |
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Ubiquity Press
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Schlagwörter: | stepped care / integrated care / depression management / treatment algorithm / transmural care / liaison-consultation / Medicine (General) / R5-920 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26802132 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.228 |