Depressive Disorder - Economics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Incremental benefit and cost of telephone care management and telephone psychotherapy for depression in primary care.

29 Sep 2009 CONTEXT: Effectiveness of organized depression care programs is well established, but dissemination will depend on the balance of benefits and costs. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the incremental benefit, incremental cost, and net benefit of 2 depression ... Read more...

National patterns in antidepressant medication treatment.

30 Jul 2009 CONTEXT: Antidepressants have recently become the most commonly prescribed class of medications in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To compare sociodemographic and clinical patterns of antidepressant medication treatment in the United States between ... Read more...

Differences in medical care expenditures for adults with depression compared to adults with major chronic conditions.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Approximately 17.1 million adults report having a major depressive episode in 2004 which represents 8% of the adult population in the U.S. Of these, more than one-third did not seek treatment. In spite of the large and extensive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Depressive Disorder - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Incremental benefit and cost of telephone care management and telephone psychotherapy for depression in primary care. 29 Sep 2009
• National patterns in antidepressant medication treatment. 30 Jul 2009
• Differences in medical care expenditures for adults with depression compared to adults with major chronic conditions. 30 May 2009
• Re: reducing the burden of depression. 30 May 2009
• The unlicensed lives of antidepressants in India: generic drugs, unqualified practitioners, and floating prescriptions. 27 Feb 2009
• Unmet need for treatment of major depression in the United States. 27 Feb 2009
• Association of mental distress with health care utilization and costs: a 5-year observation in a general population. 25 Feb 2009
• The Bypassing the Blues treatment protocol: stepped collaborative care for treating post-CABG depression. 31 Jan 2009
• [High utilization of health care services by fibromyalgia patients] 30 Jan 2009
• The cost of comorbid depression and pain for individuals diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. 30 Jan 2009
• Healthcare costs associated with depression in medically Ill fee-for-service medicare participants. 14 Jan 2009
• Depression and cardiovascular health care costs among women with suspected myocardial ischemia: prospective results from the WISE (Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation) Study. 11 Jan 2009
• Disability from depression: the public health challenge to primary care. 30 Dec 2008
• [Consumption of antidepressants in Chile from 1992 to 2004] 10 Nov 2008
• Pharmacoeconomics of antidepressants in moderate-to-severe depressive disorder in Colombia. 29 Sep 2008
• Food insecurity and maternal depression in rural, low-income families: a longitudinal investigation. 13 Sep 2008
• Healthcare costs associated with recognized and unrecognized depression in old age. 25 Aug 2008
• Economic impact of non-persistence to antidepressant therapy in the Quebec community-dwelling elderly population. 7 Aug 2008
• The effect of comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders on health care utilization and costs among adolescents with asthma. Aug 2008
• Naturalistic outcomes of minor and subsyndromal depression in older primary care patients. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Depressive Disorder'

Definition: An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent.

Descriptor UI: D003866

Alternative terms: Depressive Disorder; Depressive Disorders; Disorder, Depressive; Disorders, Depressive; Neurosis, Depressive; Depressive Neuroses; Depressive Neurosis; Neuroses, Depressive; Depression, Endogenous; Depressions, Endogenous; Endogenous Depression; Endogenous Depressions; Depressive Syndrome; Depressive Syndromes; Syndrome, Depressive; Syndromes, Depressive; Depression, Neurotic; Depressions, Neurotic; Neurotic Depression; Neurotic Depressions; Melancholia; Melancholias; Unipolar Depression; Depression, Unipolar; Depressions, Unipolar; Unipolar Depressions;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.300;

Online Note: use ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS to search DEPRESSIVE NEUROSES 1969-80

History Note: 81; DEPRESSION, NEUROTIC was DEPRESSIVE NEUROSES see DEPRESSION, REACTIVE 1979-80, see under DEPRESSION, REACTIVE 1969-78

Technical Notes: do not confuse with DEPRESSION: see note there; depression lasting over 2 years = DYSTHYMIC DISORDER