The Recognition of Depression: The Primary Care Clinician's Perspective
Open Access
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 3 (1) , 31-37
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.239
Abstract
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the responses of primary care clinicians to patients who complain of symptoms that might indicate depression, to examine the clinical strategies used by clinicians to recognize depression, and to identify the conditions that influence their ability to do so.Keywords
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