Recognition of depression by non-psychiatric physicians—a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

M Cepoiu, J McCusker, MG Cole, M Sewitch… - Journal of general …, 2008 - Springer
BACKGROUND Depression, with up to 11.9% prevalence in the general population, is a
common disorder strongly associated with increased morbidity. The accuracy of non …

Patient–provider race-concordance: does it matter in improving minority patients' health outcomes?

SH Meghani, JM Brooks, T Gipson-Jones… - Ethnicity & …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. To understand if patient–provider race-concordance is associated with improved
health outcomes for minorities. Design. A comprehensive review of published research …

Health care contacts in the year before suicide death

BK Ahmedani, GE Simon, C Stewart, A Beck… - Journal of general …, 2014 - Springer
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Suicide prevention is a public health priority, but no data on the
health care individuals receive prior to death are available from large representative United …

Understanding concordance in patient-physician relationships: personal and ethnic dimensions of shared identity

RL Street, KJ O'Malley, LA Cooper… - The Annals of Family …, 2008 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Although concordance by race and sex in physician-patient relationships has
been associated with patient ratings of better care, mechanisms through which concordance …

Time allocation in primary care office visits

M Tai‐Seale, TG McGuire, W Zhang - Health services research, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. To use an innovative videotape analysis method to examine how clinic time was
spent during elderly patients' visits to primary care physicians. Secondary objectives were to …

Acceptability of common screening methods used to detect distress and related mood disorders—preferences of cancer specialists and non‐specialists

AJ Mitchell, S Kaar, C Coggan… - … ‐Oncology: Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A new questionnaire of clinicians' attitudes and practices in relation to screening for mood
disorder was distributed to 300 cancer professionals (specialists and non‐specialists) …

Integrating mental health and primary care

S Thielke, S Vannoy, J Unützer - Primary care: Clinics in office practice, 2007 - Elsevier
Mental health and primary care delivery systems have evolved to operate differently. For
example, attention to multiple medical issues, health maintenance, and structured diagnostic …

Integrating mental health and primary care services in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system

AM Zeiss, BE Karlin - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, 2008 - Springer
Integrating mental health care in the primary care setting has been identified in the literature
as a model for increasing access to mental health services and has been associated with …

Screening for distress and depression in cancer settings: 10 lessons from 40 years of primary‐care research

AJ Mitchell, A Vahabzadeh, K Magruder - Psycho‐Oncology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: There has been at least 40 years of active research on screening for depression
and distress in primary care. Both successes and failures have been documented. The …

Patterns and predictors of mental health service use and mental illness among older and younger adults in the United States.

BE Karlin, M Duffy, DH Gleaves - Psychological Services, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study examined patterns of serious mental illness (SMI), specific mental health
syndromes, and service use among older (65+) and younger (18-64) adults throughout the …