Improving Patient-Centered Care: Personal Models of Depression Among Older Male Veterans

Authors

Erin Woodhead, San Jose State UniversityFollow
Sarah Brunskill, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
J. Lisa Tenover, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Joung Huh, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2013

Publication Title

Federal Practitioner

Volume

30

Issue Number

7

First Page

12

Last Page

17

Disciplines

Psychology

Abstract

A quality improvement project was undertaken at the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System to better understand how older veterans think about depression diagnosis and treatment so that patient education efforts and communication between older veterans and their health care providers could be improved.

Comments

This article originally appeared in Federal Practitioner, Volume 30, Issue 7, 2013, and can be found online at this link. Reprinted with permission from Federal Practitioner and Frontline Medical Communications.

Recommended Citation

Erin Woodhead, Sarah Brunskill, J. Lisa Tenover, and Joung Huh. "Improving Patient-Centered Care: Personal Models of Depression Among Older Male Veterans" Federal Practitioner (2013): 12-17.