Depression Care Management from Implementation to Expansion: “No More Wasted Years”Jennifer Stamps, MBA, RN, CPHQ; Ann Wells, MD; James Hardee, MD https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/17-140-08Introduction: With limited resources in specialty Behavioral Health, we sought creative solutions to provide care for the growing population of patients with depression. Implementing a Depression Care Management (DCM) program was the first step in standardizing the criteria for the diagnosis of depression, decreasing treatment variability, assuring adequate monitoring of symptoms, and assessing for remission or relapse. In addition to enrolling “typical” Primary Care patients with newly diagnosed depression, we also reached out and enrolled more vulnerable populations with depression, such as Medicare members, postpartum women, adolescents, and those with multiple comorbid medical conditions. |
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