Pragmatic Clinical Trial of Population Health, Portal-Based Depression Screening: the PORTAL-Depression Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A population health approach to depression screening using patient portals may be a promising strategy to proactively engage and identify patients with depression.

Objective

To determine whether a population health approach to depression screening is more effective than screening during clinic appointments alone for identifying patients with depression.

Design

A pragmatic clinical trial at an adult outpatient internal medicine clinic at an urban, academic, tertiary care center.

Patients

Eligible patients (n = 2713) were adults due for depression screening with active portal accounts. Patients with documented depression or bipolar disorder and those who had been screened in the year prior to the study were excluded.

Intervention

Patients were r

SUBMITTER: Franco MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9488885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature