Depression in Adults with a Chronic Physical Health Problem: The NICE Guideline on Treatment and Management (National Clinical Practice Guideline) 

By National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (section of the Colleges Research Unit)

300 pages - Publisher: RCPsych Publications; 1 Pap/Com edition
Year - 2010 - Language: English
ISBN-10: 1904671861 - ISBN-13: 978-1904671862

People with a chronic physical health problem (e.g. cancer, diabetes) are three times more likely to develop depression. When they do, it is much more severe.

Sets out clear recommendations for healthcare staff (based on the best available evidence) on how to diagnose and manage adults with a chronic physical health problem who have depression, in order to significantly improve their treatment and care.

Guideline specifically recognises the dual-condition problems and places emphasis on interactions between antidepressants and other prescribed medication.

Commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

The CD-ROM contains all of the evidence on which the recommendations are based, presented as profile tables (that analyse quality of data) and forest plots (plus, info on using/interpreting forest plots). This material is not available anywhere else.

Readership

Both hospital-based physical practitioners and general practitioners.

Related titles

This has a sister title Depression (Updated edition), ISBN 9781904671855, due out May 2010. Most recent in the NICE guides series is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ISBN 9781854334718, from 2009.

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