Patterns of Care for Depressed Older Adults in a Large‐Staff Model HMO
作者:
Jürgen Unützer,
Wayne Katon,
Joan Russo,
Gregory Simon,
Terry Bush,
Edward Walker,
Elizabeth Lin,
Michael Van Korff,
Evette Ludman,
期刊:
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
(OVID Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 3
页码: 235-243
ISSN:1064-7481
年代: 1999
出版商: OVID
关键词: Health Services;Primary Care;Depression
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The authors examined automated pharmacy and visit data for 502 members of a large-staff model health maintenance organization (HMO) who had been diagnosed with depression and started on antidepressants by their primary-care providers. Older patients (age ≥60; n=110) were less likely than younger adults (age 18–59, n=110) to receive adequate doses of antidepressant medications for 30 or 90 days. Older adults were also less likely than younger adults to receive more than two primary-care visits for depression in the 12 weeks after receiving a new antidepressant prescription and were less likely to receive specialty mental health care in the 6 months after receiving a new antidepressant prescription.
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