The Bypassing the Blues treatment protocol: stepped collaborative care for treating post-CABG depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present the design of the Bypassing the Blues (BtB) study to examine the impact of a collaborative care strategy for treating depression among patients with cardiac disease. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is one of the most common and costly medical procedures performed in the US. Up to half of post-CABG patients report depressive symptoms, and they are more likely to experience poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL), worse functional status, continued chest pains, and higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity independent of cardiac status, medical comorbidity, and the extent of bypass surgery.

Methods

BtB was designed to enroll 450 post-CABG patients from eight Pittsburgh-area hospitals including: (1) 300 patients who expressed mood symptoms p

SUBMITTER: Rollman BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4573662 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature