Dr. Evette Ludman reflects on the Stride trial that she led with Group Health and Swedish Medical Center patients with chronic depression.
Randomized controlled trial including peer support helps patients at Kaiser Permanente and Swedish Medical Center.
Mental health care, especially for depression, could dramatically improve the lives of cancer patients and survivors.
The Now Matters Now team is making it easier to reach out to people thinking of suicide.
A pioneer in developing team-based health care, Dr. Katon led research at UW and Group Health that improved depression care for millions worldwide.
Kaiser Permanente scientists are leading a groundbreaking research study involving 20,000 patients to find out how to help people who are at risk for suicide.
How best to care for the many adolescents who have depression? In a collaborative care intervention, a care manager continually reached out to teens—delivering and following up on treatment in a primary-care setting (the office of a pediatrician or family doctor, not a psychiatrist or psychologist) at Group Health Cooperative. Depression outcomes after a year were significantly better with this approach than with usual care, according to a randomized controlled trial published in JAMA.
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