PubMed · 9308881
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K B Roberts, T G DeWitt, L M Osborn. 1997. Caveat emptor? Caveat lector (reader beware)!. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1997.02170460097022
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Depression is a common cause of illness with significant social, vocational, and economic consequences. As one of the most treatable forms of mental illness, depression often is underrecognized and undertreated. The annual cost of depression to the United States economy is approximately $43.7 billion, with 55 percent (or $23.8 billion) accounting for missed work and lowered productivity. The prevalence rate of depression is estimated at 12-20 percent. The depressed patient utilizes two to three times more health services. There is little in the literature to demonstrate the care of the depressed person across the continuum in an integrated health care system. This article reviews the development and implementation of the treatment of depression care across multiple sites along the continuum. The care management depression team utilized the principles of performance improvement; Plan, Do, Check, Act framework for the initiative.
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The impact on quality of ward care provided by surgeons within two continuity schedules was assessed by explicit and implicit audit. In one schedule one surgeon provided care and in another a staff of surgeons provided care. The study included 214 consecutive inpatients. The study demonstrated that quality of ward care was unaffected by continuity schedule. In the single surgeon continuity schedule, however, nearly twice as many discharge letters were posted within four days (p < 0.001). Likewise, twice as many contained information that the patients had been informed about the diagnosis (p < 0.05). In both continuity schedules about 20% of the patients received inadequate care. Analysis of this finding demonstrated that more patients had been subject to inadequate follow-up in the single surgeon continuity schedule, whereas more patients had been subject to inadequate postoperative observation in the staff continuity schedule. In both schedules an equal number of patients had been subject to incomplete diagnoses and inadequate medical care.