Identifying Patients With Depression in the Primary Care Setting
Open Access
- 7 December 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 158 (22) , 2469-2475
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.158.22.2469
Abstract
DEPRESSION IS one of the most common disorders in the primary care setting. Approximately 5% to 9% of all adult outpatients seen by primary care physicians have a major depressive disorder.1 Even more patients suffer milder, but clinically significant, subthreshold levels of depression.2-4 Depression results in substantial patient suffering, disability, and health care costs.4-8This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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