Depression Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Across the Lifespan.

Cozine, Elizabeth W; Wilkinson, John M · Prim Care · 2016

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Abstract

This article focuses on six basic components of more effective depression care, emphasizing systems of team-based and collaborative care for diagnosis, monitoring, and follow-up. It also emphasizes the principles of stepped care and proactive and timely intensification of treatment, and discusses various augmentation strategies that all primary care providers could more readily employ.

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