Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a specialist depression service versus usual specialist mental health care to manage persistent depression: a randomised controlled trial

Background: Persistent moderate or severe unipolar depression is common and expensive to treat. Clinical guidelines recommend combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Such treatments can take up to 1 year to show an effect, but no trials of suitable duration have been done. We investigated the ef...

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Main Authors: Morriss, Richard K., Garland, Anne, Nixon, Neil, Guo, Boliang, James, Marilyn, Kaylor-Hughes, Catherine, Moore, Richard, Ramana, Rajini, Sampson, Christopher, Sweeney, Timothy, Dalgleish, Tim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lancet 2016
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35725/
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35725/1/Efficacy%20and%20%20cost%20efectiveness%20of%20speciliasr%20depression%20service%20Lancet%20Psychiatry%20green%20open%20version.pdf