Treatment Process and Outcomes for Managed Care Patients Receiving New Antidepressant Prescriptions From Psychiatrists and Primary Care Physicians
Open Access
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 58 (4) , 395-401
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.58.4.395
Abstract
PRIMARY CARE physicians in the United States account for nearly half of all antidepressant-related visits1,2 and 60% or more of first antidepressant prescriptions.3 Restrictions on access to specialty mental health care may further increase the proportion of first-line antidepressant treatment provided in primary care.4Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Care and outcomes of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction by physician specialty: the effects of comorbidity and functional limitationsThe American Journal of Medicine, 2000
- Specialty Differences in the Care of Older Patients With DiabetesMedical Care, 2000
- A systematic review of the effects of physician specialty on the treatment of coronary disease and heart failure in the United StatesThe American Journal of Medicine, 2000
- Resource Use and Survival of Patients Hospitalized with Congestive Heart Failure: Differences in Care by Specialty of the Attending PhysicianAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2000
- Outcome of Acute Myocardial Infarction According to the Specialty of the Admitting PhysicianNew England Journal of Medicine, 1996
- Outcomes of patients with hypertension and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus treated by different systems and specialties. Results from the medical outcomes studyPublished by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1995
- Use of minor tranquilizers and antidepressant medications by depressed outpatients: results from the medical outcomes studyAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
- Patterns of antidepressant use in community practiceGeneral Hospital Psychiatry, 1993
- Edinburgh primary care depression study: treatment outcome, patient satisfaction, and cost after 16 weeks.BMJ, 1992
- Adequacy and Duration of Antidepressant Treatment in Primary CareMedical Care, 1992