Efficacy of automated electronic medical records (EMR) notification to promote provider intervention for severe depression: a retrospective record review

Conclusions: Notification of patient depression status alone was insufficient to persuade most surgeons to discuss mental health with their severely depressed patients. To empower surgeons to have these important conversations, extant barriers need to be identified and addressed. The association with rates of intervention and individual-level factors of both patients and providers could be explored. Level of Evidence: Level IV.
Source: Current Orthopaedic Practice - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Original Research Source Type: research