TY - JOUR T1 - Depression indicators in a national sample of older community and care home patients: applying the Quality and Outcomes Framework JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 135 LP - 138 DO - 10.3399/bjgp11X556281 VL - 61 IS - 583 AU - Tess Harris AU - Sunil M Shah AU - Iain M Carey AU - Stephen DeWilde AU - Derek G Cook Y1 - 2011/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/61/583/135.abstract N2 - In a national primary care database sample of older people (≥65 years), 81% (83 588/103 821) of community and 58% (1702/2940) of care home residents with diabetes or heart disease had depression case finding recently recorded; 66% (1418/2145) of community and 22% (26/118) of care home residents with a new depression episode had a depression-severity assessment recorded. Age, sex, and higher care home dementia prevalence did not explain these differences. Case finding and assessment of depression need to be improved in older people, particularly care home residents. ER -