Depression Screening Rates and Symptom Severity by Alcohol Use Among Primary Care Adult Patients

Conclusions: Only a small fraction of patients in this cohort were screened for depression. Nonwhite patients and those with higher comorbidity burden were more likely to report depression but less likely to be screened. These discrepancies between depression-screening rates and significant depressive symptoms suggest that screening for depression should be enhanced in these at-risk groups.

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Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - September 10, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Hirschtritt, M. E., Kline-Simon, A. H., Kroenke, K., Sterling, S. A. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research