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Measuring outcomes in patients with depression or anxiety: an essential part of clinical practice
Author(s) -
Hickie Ian B,
Davenport Tracey A,
Andrews Gavin
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04734.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , officer , depression (economics) , senior house officer , psychiatry , library science , medicine , psychology , history , family medicine , art history , archaeology , economics , macroeconomics , computer science
A wide range of instruments is available for ongoing assessment of clinical status and outcome in patients with depressive or anxiety disorders. However, few doctors use these instruments in managing their patients. As depression and anxiety are relapsing or chronic conditions and are often comorbid with other medical conditions, standard outcome measures should be incorporated into the management plans for all such patients.