BackgroundFactors related to the outcome of depression and anxiety in primary care are not
fully understood.MethodAdult patients in general practice with depressive, anxiety or panic …

BACKGROUND: Patients with mental disorder presenting with medically unexplained symptoms
(somatized mental disorder) are common in primary care, difficult to treat, and function …

BACKGROUND: Patients with mental disorder presenting with medically unexplained
symptoms (somatized mental disorder) are difficult to treat and consume a lot of health care. …

Objectives To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the implementation of the Identification and
Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) programme using up-to-date real-world information on …

Background. Although it is recognized that anxiety and depression are associated with
frequent attendance in primary care, not all patients with these disorders attend frequently. The …

Psychiatric social workers (PSWs) in a mainstream psychiatric hospital offered a service to a
small number of clients referred by two local GPs, for 12 months. Although the service was …

… CLARE RONALDS, b med sci, J. P. VAUGHAN, mrcp,mfcm and P. … Clare Ronalds,
Medical Student; J. P. Vaughan, Senior Lecturer in Community Health (Epidemiology); P. …

… Clare and Catherine would like to thank the IRISi team for their continuing endeavours to
provide evidence-based interventions in healthcare to sup port and improve the lives of women …

A fat paperback itself, this contains more information than most general practitioners would
want to try digesting: it is heavily weighted towards the psychiatric aspects of its subject (the …

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