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Table 3 Patients with first or new depressive symptoms receiving an antidepressant prescription or being referred to mental healthcare within one month (in percentages of the total of patients with a first or new depressive episode)

From: Implementing guidelines for depression on antidepressant prescribing in general practice: a quasi-experimental evaluation

 

QIC practices

Usual care practices

 

2006

2007

2008

2006

2007

2008

Antidepressant prescription

49.4

32.2*

26.1*

50.3

47.0

52.6

Referral to mental healthcare

11.5

16.4

11.2

10.1

13.0*

9.0

N

87

152

161

1261

996

1699

  1. *sign. < 0,05 compared with baseline (2006).