Case Management for the Treatment of Patients With Major Depression in General Practices - Rationale, Design and Conduct of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial - Prompt (Primary Care Monitoring for Depressive Patient's Trial) [ISRCTN66386086] - Study Pr
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
- Tags:
- Benefits,
- Software,
- Patient,
- Monitoring,
- Human Resources,
- Healthcare,
- Health Care,
- Enterprise Software,
- Depression,
- Corporate Law,
- ...
- Source:
- BioMed Central
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Overview: Depression is a disorder with high prevalence in primary health care and a significant burden of illness. The delivery of health care for depression, as well as other chronic illnesses, has been criticized for several reasons and new strategies to address the needs of these illnesses have been advocated. Case management is a patient-centered approach which has shown efficacy in the treatment of depression in highly organized Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) settings and which might also be effective in other, less structured settings.
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Format: PDF | Size: 152KB | Date: Oct 2005 | Pages: 17





