ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2007
Who is treated, and how, for depression? An analysis of statutory health insurance data in Germany.
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- Who receives depression-specific treatment? A secondary data-based analysis of outpatient care received by over 780,000 statutory health-insured individuals diagnosed with depression.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012Article
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- Prevalence of depression diagnosis and prescription of antidepressants in East and West Germany: an analysis of health insurance data.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2010Article
- Screening for depression in the older long-term unemployed.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2009Article
- Estimation of Input Costs for a Markov Model in a German Health Economic Evaluation of Newer Antidepressants.MDM policy & practiceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundStudies on the treatment of depression using epidemiological survey methods suggest a high level of under-treatment. Little is known about the characteristics of those people receiving treatment and indeed what kind of treatment they are likely to receive.
methodAnalysis of the data of a statutory health insurance company in Germany.
resultsIn middle-aged groups, about 50% of those diagnosed as being depressed in outpatient care are prescribed antidepressants and/or psychotherapy in the course of a year. There is more pharmacologic treatment provided in rural areas and more psychotherapy in cities, suggesting that treatment is dependent upon service availability rather than evidence-based treatment decisions. Treatment rates are considerably lower in the very young and the very old and show gender bias. Young females receive less pharmacologic treatment than young males, and elderly men are, in general, treated less than women, suggesting under-treatment at least for these groups.
conclusionsThe low treatment rates following the diagnosis of depression in the young and the old require attention, in particular with respect to gender aspect.
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