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Article: Investigators at University of Liverpool target depression.
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- Mental Health Weekly Digest
- Article date:
- April 20, 2009
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According to recent research from Liverpool, the United Kingdom, " To gain understanding of general practitioners' and patients' opinions of the routine introduction of standardised measures of severity of depression through the UK general practice quality and outcomes framework. Semistructured qualitative interview study, with purposive sampling and constant comparative analysis."
"Participants 34 general practitioners and 24 patients. Setting 38 general practices in three sites in England: Southampton, Liverpool, and Norfolk. Patients generally favoured the measures of severity for depression, whereas general practitioners were generally cautious about the ...