Primary care is an untapped resource for depression screening

(University of California - San Francisco) A new study has identified at-risk populations for whom depression screening combined with hazardous alcohol use screening could detect depressive symptoms that might otherwise go untreated. These populations include non-White and more medically ill patients, and men in general, for whom screening rates are particularly low.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news