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Willingness to pay for depression treatment in primary careJurgen Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:340-5. 2003..The authors analyzed data from 615 depressed primary care patients to determine their willingness to pay for depression treatment...- Improving primary care for depression in late life: the design of a multicenter randomized trialJ Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Med Care 39:785-99. 2001..Late life depression can be successfully treated with antidepressant medications or psychotherapy, but few depressed older adults receive effective treatment... - Two-year effects of quality improvement programs on medication management for depressionJ Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 10920 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:935-42. 2001..Significant underuse of evidence-based treatments for depression persists in primary care. We examined the effects of 2 primary care-based quality improvement (QI) programs on medication management for depression... - Mental disorders and the use of alternative medicine: results from a national surveyJ Unutzer
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Santa Monica, CA 90024, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:1851-7. 2000..The study examined the relationship between mental disorders and the use of complementary and alternative medicine... - Quality adjusted life years in older adults with depressive symptoms and chronic medical disordersJ Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 12:15-33. 2000..In terms of the entire study population, only arthritis and heart disease were more strongly associated with QALYs than depression... - A web-based data management system to improve care for depression in a multicenter clinical trialJurgen Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA
Psychiatr Serv 53:671-3, 678. 2002 - Depressive symptoms and mortality in a prospective study of 2,558 older adultsJurgen Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 10920 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 10:521-30. 2002..The authors report results from a 7-year prospective study of depression and mortality in 2,558 Medicare recipients age 65 and older... - Patterns of care for depressed older adults in a large-staff model HMOJ Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 90024 6505, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 7:235-43. 1999.... - Collaborative care management of late-life depression in the primary care setting: a randomized controlled trialJurgen Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 10920 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
JAMA 288:2836-45. 2002..Few depressed older adults receive effective treatment in primary care settings... - Treating depressed older adults in primary care: narrowing the gap between efficacy and effectivenessJ Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute 90024, USA
Milbank Q 77:225-56, 174. 1999..More research is needed to understand these barriers and to study the effectiveness of multifaceted, population-based disease management interventions for late-life depression in primary care... - Depression treatment in a sample of 1,801 depressed older adults in primary careJurgen Unutzer
Center for Health Services Research, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:505-14. 2003..To examine rates and predictors of lifetime and recent depression treatment in a sample of 1,801 depressed older primary care patients.. - Impact of disseminating quality improvement programs for depression in managed primary care: a randomized controlled trialK B Wells
RAND, Health Program, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA
JAMA 283:212-20. 2000..Care of patients with depression in managed primary care settings often fails to meet guideline standards, but the long-term impact of quality improvement (QI) programs for depression care in such settings is unknown... - Long-term effectiveness of disseminating quality improvement for depression in primary careC D Sherbourne
Health Program, RAND, 1700 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:696-703. 2001.... - Can quality improvement programs for depression in primary care address patient preferences for treatment?M Dwight-Johnson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Med Care 39:934-44. 2001..Depression is common in primary care, but rates of adequate care are low. Little is known about the role of patient treatment preferences in encouraging entry into care... - Quality of care for primary care patients with depression in managed careK B Wells
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Arch Fam Med 8:529-36. 1999..To evaluate the process and quality of care for primary care patients with depression under managed care organizations... - Can utility-weighted health-related quality-of-life estimates capture health effects of quality improvement for depression?C Donald Sherbourne
RAND, Santa Monica, California 90407 2138, USA
Med Care 39:1246-59. 2001..Utility methods that are responsive to changes in desirable outcomes are needed for cost-effectiveness (CE) analyses and to help in decisions about resource allocation... - Relationship between age and patients' current health state preferencesC D Sherbourne
RAND, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Gerontologist 39:271-8. 1999..Health providers should take care to assess individual preferences from all patients regardless of age... - Problematic substance use, depressive symptoms, and gender in primary careC A Roeloffs
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA
Psychiatr Serv 52:1251-3. 2001..Men were significantly more likely than women to have received counseling about drug or alcohol use from their primary care practitioner... - Utilization management in a large managed behavioral health organizationA Koike
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, USA
Psychiatr Serv 51:621-6. 2000..The utilization management process of a managed behavioral health organization was examined to determine the frequency and types of reviews and the extent to which rationing of service was achieved through the denial of services... - The treated prevalence of bipolar disorder in a large staff-model HMOJ Unutzer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA
Psychiatr Serv 49:1072-8. 1998..The treated prevalence of bipolar disorder was examined in a large staff-model health maintenance organization (HMO) in western Washington state... - Reducing suicidal ideation in depressed older primary care patientsJurgen Unutzer
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1550-6. 2006..To determine the effect of a primary care-based collaborative care program for depression on suicidal ideation in older adults... - From establishing an evidence-based practice to implementation in real-world settings: IMPACT as a case studyJurgen Unutzer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Box 356560, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 28:1079-92. 2005 - Cost-effectiveness of improving primary care treatment of late-life depressionWayne J Katon
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:1313-20. 2005..Depression is a leading cause of functional impairment in elderly individuals and is associated with high medical costs, but there are large gaps in quality of treatment in primary care... - Hospital at home: feasibility and outcomes of a program to provide hospital-level care at home for acutely ill older patientsBruce Leff
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Ann Intern Med 143:798-808. 2005..Acutely ill older persons often experience adverse events when cared for in the acute care hospital...