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Jürgen Unützer

Researcher at University of Washington

Publications -  290
Citations -  30165

Jürgen Unützer is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Collaborative Care. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 284 publications receiving 26945 citations. Previous affiliations of Jürgen Unützer include University of Washington Medical Center & University of California, Los Angeles.

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Collaborative care for depression : A cumulative meta-analysis and review of longer-term outcomes. Commentary

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a systematic review of randomized controlled trials that compared collaborative care with usual primary care in patients with depression and found that collaborative care is more effective than standard care in improving depression outcomes in the short and longer terms.
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Impact of disseminating quality improvement programs for depression in managed primary care: A randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: When managed primary care practices implemented QI programs that improve opportunities for depression treatment without mandating it, quality of care, mental health outcomes, and retention of employment of depressed patients improved over a year, while medical visits did not increase overall.
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Monitoring depression treatment outcomes with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9

TL;DR: The PHQ-9 has now proven to be a responsive and reliable measure of depression treatment outcomes and an attractive tool for gauging response to treatment in individual patient care as well as in clinical research.