Generalist care managers for the treatment of depressed medicaid patients in North Carolina: A pilot study

BMC Primary Care

Table 3 Days of antidepressant medication "use" in past 30 days: proportion with > = 75% use

Source	Condition	3 months		6 months
		minimal	moderate	minimal	moderate
Medicaid	GCM	50 *	32	36	18 *
	Usual Care	26	17	30	4
Chart	GCM	71 *	48	52	33
	Usual Care	45	36	32	18
Patient	GCM	72	44	44	28
	Usual Care	71	21	63	31

GCM represents the Generalist Care Manager arm of the study.
Medicaid represents claims data used to document prescriptions filled.
Chart represents chart abstraction to document medications written by physicians.
Patient represents patient self reported medication use.
Minimal represents the minimal dosing of antidepressants.
Moderate represents the moderate level of dosing of antidepressants.
* p < .15

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