Open AccessDoes Patient Adherence to Antidepressant Medication Actually Vary Between Physicians?
Author(s) -
Gregory E. Simon,
Eric A. Johnson,
Christine Stewart,
Rebecca C. Rossom,
Arne Beck,
Karen J. Coleman,
Beth E. Waitzfelder,
Robert B. Penfold,
Belinda H. Operskalski,
Susan M. Shortreed
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of clinical psychiatry/the journal of clinical psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.677
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1534-8628
pISSN - 0160-6689
DOI - 10.4088/jcp.16m11324
Subject(s) - medicine , antidepressant , medical prescription , discontinuation , depression (economics) , psychological intervention , psychiatry , family medicine , medical record , mental health , percentile , emergency medicine , anxiety , nursing , economics , macroeconomics , statistics , mathematics
Previous research and improvement efforts have presumed that patients' nonadherence to antidepressant medication reflects physicians' quality of care. We used population-based health records to examine whether adherence to antidepressant medication actually varies between prescribing physicians.