Improving Care for Depression

There's No Free Lunch

Lisa V. Rubenstein

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2006Published in: Annals of Internal Medicine, v. 145, no. 7, Oct. 3, 2006, p. 544-546

Primary care clinicians know depression well, yet diagnostic and treatment failures are common. In answer to the pressing need to do better, the elegant study by Dobscha and colleagues in this issue adds critical information to the existing body of work on improving depression outcomes in primary care, showing that in depression care, there's no free lunch.

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  • Copyright: American College of Physicians
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2006
  • Pages: 3
  • Document Number: EP-200610-09

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