Increasing Recognition and Diagnosis of Adolescent Depression: Project RedDE: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT: Adolescent depression causes appreciable morbidity and is underdiagnosed in primary care. This study investigated whether a quality improvement collaborative (QIC) increases the frequency of adolescent depression diagnoses, thus reducing missed diagnoses.

Methods

During a cluster-randomized clinical trial, a national cohort of primary care pediatric practices worked in different orders based on randomization to improve performance on each of three different diagnoses; one was increasing adolescent depression diagnoses. While improving their first diagnosis during an 8-month action period, practices collected control data for a different diagnosis. In two subsequent 8-month periods, practices worked to improve two additional diagnoses and continued to provide data on the ability to s

SUBMITTER: Rinke ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805099 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature