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Depression Research and Treatment
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 769298, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/769298
Research Article

Evaluating Depression Care Management in a Community Setting: Main Outcomes for a Medicaid HMO Population with Multiple Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidities

Jeanette A. Waxmonsky,1,2 Marshall Thomas,1,2 Alexis Giese,1,2 Steve Zyzanski,3 L. Miriam Dickinson,4 Gretchen Flanders McGinnis,2 and Paul Nutting4,5

1University of Colorado Denver (UCD) Depression Center and Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Building 500, 13001 E. 17th Place, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
2Colorado Access, 10065 E. Harvard Avenue, Suite 600, Denver, CO 80045, USA
3Case Western Reserve University, Bolwell 1200, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
4Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Academic Office 1, 12631 E. 17th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
5Center for Research Strategies, 225 E. 16th Avenue, Suite 1150, Denver, CO 80203-1694, USA

Received 31 March 2012; Accepted 17 September 2012

Academic Editor: Mark S. Bauer

Copyright © 2012 Jeanette A. Waxmonsky et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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