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The Role of Decision Aids in Depression Care
Clarion calls about enhancing detection and management of depression in primary care have reiterated several truisms: Depression is as prevalent as many common medical disorders, treatable yet frequently undertreated, responsible for enormous occupational and social impairment as well as adverse effects on the costs, treatment outcomes, and mortality of comorbid medical diseases. Depression is second only to low back pain in years lived with disability (YLD), a metric that incorporates disease prevalence, age of onset, chronicity, and impairment. The YLDs attributable to depression exceed those accounted for by diabetes, i...
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - September 28, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Medication Review After a Fracture
Approximately 1 of every 2 women and 1 of every 4 men aged 50 years or older will experience a fracture in their remaining lifetime. In fact, in the United States, the annual number of osteoporotic fractures that occur exceeds the incidence of heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer combined. Morbidity and mortality is considerable following major osteoporotic fractures, particularly in individuals with hip fracture: 44% of individuals with a hip fracture are readmitted to the hospital, and 21% will die in the first year following the fracture. This readmission rate is nearly 2-fold greater than the readmission rate follow...
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - August 22, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research