TY - JOUR T1 - Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners and recognition of depression in primary care. JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 563 LP - 566 VL - 52 IS - 480 AU - Andrew Martyn Thornett AU - Ruth M Pickering AU - Tracy Willis AU - Chris Thompson Y1 - 2002/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/52/480/563.abstract N2 - To determine the effect of membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) on recognition of depression, odds ratios, Lowess-smoothed plots, and regression models were produced for recognition rates in a representative sample of 20,818 patient contacts for members and non-members of the RCGP Membership of the RCGP did not appear to convey greater ability to discriminate between depressed and non-depressed patients, but members were more likely to recognise depression in both depressed and non-depressed individuals. ER -