Adherence to Evidence-Based Practice for Major Depressive Disorder

Abstract

Background or Problem/Issue: The U.S. Army has the highest percentage of service members diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD). Compliance with antidepressant drug therapy six months after diagnosis of MDD is an evidence-based quality of treatment performance measure. Clinical Question or Purpose: To determine whether MDD is being evaluated and treated in accordance with the evidenced-based Veterans Affair (VA)/ Department of Defense (DoD) MDD clinical practice guideline (CPG) and national Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) standards at Fort Hood's Bennett and Thomas Moore Soldier Centered Medical Home Clinics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 26, 2019
Accession Number
AD1128091

Entities

People

  • Amanda Rodriguez
  • Joseph Michna

Organizations

  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antidepressants
  • Birds
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Delivery Of Health Care
  • Department Of Defense
  • Depression
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Drug Therapy
  • Electronic Mail
  • Family Medicine
  • General Practice
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Human Population
  • Information Science
  • Institutional Review Board
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Students
  • Therapy
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Medical or Health Care Field.
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