Study Finds Primary Care Depression Treatment Often Does Not Follow Quality Guidelines

Most patients with depression who are treated by primary care physicians do not receive care consistent with quality standards, according to a new RAND Corporation study.Physicians had high rates of adherence to just one third of the 20 measures of quality that researchers examined and had low rates of adherence to nearly half of the treatment recommendations studied, according to the report in the September 4 edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Depression on September 12th, 2007