Improving Adolescent Depression in Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has exacerbated and increased the prevalence of depression in adolescents. There is significant evidence supporting best practices for treating adolescent depression; yet, many adolescents remain unidentified or untreated by their primary care provider. For this...

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Autores principales: Chavez, Banesa, Sullivan, Jessica, Portela, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9881523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nurpra.2022.11.013
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Sumario:The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has exacerbated and increased the prevalence of depression in adolescents. There is significant evidence supporting best practices for treating adolescent depression; yet, many adolescents remain unidentified or untreated by their primary care provider. For this quality improvement initiative, the Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC) were implemented in a primary care setting. After GLAD-PC implementation, 90% of participants identified as having depression received an intervention compared with 60% of patients in the baseline group. The results showed that implementing GLAD-PC led to a significant increase in the treatment of adolescent depression in primary care.

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