{"id":2388,"date":"2016-03-26T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2016-03-25T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:48:35","slug":"primary-care-doctors-often-dont-help-patients-manage-depression-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care Doctors Often Don\u2019t Help Patients Manage Depression: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Although primary care doctors frequently see patients with depression, they typically do less to help those patients manage it than they do for patients with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma or congestive heart failure, a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/35\/3\/394.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>That is important because <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/28\/1\/75.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">research has found<\/a> that it can be good for patients\u2019 health when physician practices have procedures in place to identify and provide targeted services to patients with chronic conditions and to encourage patients to get involved in actively managing their own care.<\/p>\n<p>But physicians were less likely to use those \u201ccare-management processes\u201d with patients who have depression than with those who had other chronic conditions, according to the study in the March edition of the journal Health Affairs. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/primary-care-doctors-often-dont-help-patients-manage-depression-study\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=27699321&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_yDN9vc_KZYTqjAnQMKWvARXyj3M6w8DsfWakDFJCKcpb1Wy0Zly0LEoQBP4r9E2TYLW9kCi-8jl5imNa9irggIGdtIg&amp;_hsmi=27699321\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"88\" height=\"46\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) Although primary care doctors frequently see patients with depression, they typically do less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}