@article{ref1,
title="Following depression in primary care: do family practice physicians ask about depression at different rates than internal medicine physicians?",
journal="Archives of family medicine",
year="2000",
author="Nichols, G. A. and Brown, J. B.",
volume="9",
number="5",
pages="478-482",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the chronically or recurrently depressed patients of family practice and internal medicine physicians differed in the proportion reporting that their primary care physician asked them about depression symptoms. <br><br>DESIGN: A cross-sectional observational study of chronically or recurrently depressed survey respondents who identified a family practice or internal medicine physician as their primary care provider. SETTING: A large not-for-profit group-model health maintenance organization in the northwestern United States, with a population representative of its service area. PATIENTS: Health maintenance organization members (n= 1161) with ongoing or recurring depression or dysthymia who responded to a 1993 survey and who identified either a family practice or internal medicine physician as their primary care provider. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Patients' self-report of their primary care physician asking them: (1) whether they had been feeling sad, blue, or depressed; (2) to fill out a questionnaire about their mood or feelings; and (3) whether they had been thinking about death or suicide. <br><br>RESULTS: Chronically or recurrently depressed patients of family practice physicians were more likely to report that their physician asked them about depressive symptoms than were patients of internal medicine physicians (34.0% vs 27.3%) (P=.02). This finding persisted in a multivariate analysis. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Family practice physicians may be more attentive to depressive disorders than internal medicine physicians.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1063-3987",
doi="10.1001/archfami.9.5.478",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archfami.9.5.478"
}