The TrueBlue model of collaborative care using practice nurses as case managers for depression alongside diabetes or heart disease: a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT: To determine the effectiveness of collaborative care in reducing depression in primary care patients with diabetes or heart disease using practice nurses as case managers. A two-arm open randomised cluster trial with wait-list control for 6 months. The intervention was followed over 12 months. Eleven Australian general practices, five randomly allocated to the intervention and six to the control. 400 primary care patients (206 intervention, 194 control) with depression and type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease or both. The practice nurse acted as a case manager identifying depression, reviewing pathology results, lifestyle risk factors and patient goals and priorities. Usual care continued in the controls. A five-point reduction in depression scores for patients with moderate-to-severe d

SUBMITTER: Morgan MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563126 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature