Chronic Depression in General Practice

[Treatment of depression in general practice].

With the co-operation of the family doctors in five selected urban general practices the general-practitioner treatment of 73 patients suffering from a new episode of depressive illness was evaluated over a period of four months. The purpose was to test the belief that general practitioners are best fitted to manage most psychological ailments, and depression was chosen as the psychiatric illne...

Depression and suicide in general medical practice.

PRACTICE DIAGNOSIS IN GENERAL PRACTICE Chronic cough in adults

The diagnostic dilemma Chronic cough is somewhat arbitrarily defined as any cough with a duration of eight weeks. It is common in primary care. In one postal survey of 11 000 patients registered with four general practices, 14% of men and 10% of women reported coughing on more than half the days in the year. In practice, smokers rarely consult about their cough because they assume (usually corr...

Chronic fatigue syndrome in Army general practice.

Depression in patients in an Auckland general practice.

AIM To measure the rate of detected and undetected depression in patients attending an Auckland general practice. METHOD At their consultation conclusion, general practitioners (GPs) asked all consecutive patients over sixteen years attending for consultation to participate in a health and mood questionnaire. A researcher administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to consenting particip...