Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Ongoing Depression Management Cost Effective Reuters Health story at Medscape - "Taking a disease management approach to depression leads to improved outcomes and is cost effective, according to a report in the January/February issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. In fact, Dr. Kathryn Rost from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora told Reuters Health that 'health plans interested in improving the treatment they provide for depression... need to adopt models that provide care management on an ongoing basis, rather than an acute basis.' " [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

Doctors fail to diagnose bipolar disorder in studyUS News &World Report story - "bout 5 percent of people are thought to experience the cycles of mania and depression that characterize bipolar disorder. But it's not clear that primary-care doctors know how to catch the disorder during routine checkups. Researchers at a clinic for low-income patients in New York City looked at how likely primary-care doctors were to diagnose the disorder..."