TY - JOUR
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Humans
KW - Mass Screening/methods/standards
KW - Primary Health Care/methods
KW - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis/therapy
AU - J. Sonis
A1 - 
AB - Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common in primary care but it is frequently not detected or treated adequately. There is insufficient evidence to recommend universal screening for PTSD in primary care, but clinicians should remain alert to PTSD among patients exposed to trauma, and among those with other psychiatric disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple somatic symptoms and chronic pain. A two-stage process of screening (involving the PC-PTSD), and, for those with a positive screen, a diagnostic evaluation (using the PTSD-Checklist), can detect most patients with PTSD with few false positives. Evidence-based recommendations are provided for treatment in primary care or referral to mental health.
BT - Current psychiatry reports
C5 - Education & Workforce; Healthcare Disparities; Measures; Medically Unexplained Symptoms
CP - 7
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s11920-013-0373-4
IS - 7
JF - Current psychiatry reports
N2 - Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common in primary care but it is frequently not detected or treated adequately. There is insufficient evidence to recommend universal screening for PTSD in primary care, but clinicians should remain alert to PTSD among patients exposed to trauma, and among those with other psychiatric disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple somatic symptoms and chronic pain. A two-stage process of screening (involving the PC-PTSD), and, for those with a positive screen, a diagnostic evaluation (using the PTSD-Checklist), can detect most patients with PTSD with few false positives. Evidence-based recommendations are provided for treatment in primary care or referral to mental health.
PP - United States
PY - 2013
SN - 1535-1645; 1523-3812
SP - 373
T1 - PTSD in primary care-an update on evidence-based management
T2 - Current psychiatry reports
TI - PTSD in primary care-an update on evidence-based management
U1 - Education & Workforce; Healthcare Disparities; Measures; Medically Unexplained Symptoms
U2 - 23712724
U3 - 10.1007/s11920-013-0373-4
VL - 15
VO - 1535-1645; 1523-3812
Y1 - 2013
ER -