TY - JOUR KW - Depression/therapy KW - Humans KW - Outcome Assessment (Health Care)/methods KW - Patient Care Team/standards AU - J. Hopwood AU - M. Agius A1 - AB - Collaborative care between general practitioners and mental health specialists has been shown to improve the care of patients with depression in primary care and may be an important development in mental health services. Outcome measures are becoming increasingly important in psychiatry as we attempt to alter and improve the structure of services. In this article we propose a series of outcome measures that can be used to measure the effectiveness of shared care for patients with depression including objective measures of improvement in psychopathology and subjective measures of patient and professional experience. BT - Psychiatria Danubina C5 - General Literature CY - Croatia JF - Psychiatria Danubina N2 - Collaborative care between general practitioners and mental health specialists has been shown to improve the care of patients with depression in primary care and may be an important development in mental health services. Outcome measures are becoming increasingly important in psychiatry as we attempt to alter and improve the structure of services. In this article we propose a series of outcome measures that can be used to measure the effectiveness of shared care for patients with depression including objective measures of improvement in psychopathology and subjective measures of patient and professional experience. PP - Croatia PY - 2013 SN - 0353-5053; 0353-5053 EP - 4 EP - S291+ T1 - Establishing outcome measures for shared care in the treatment of depression T2 - Psychiatria Danubina TI - Establishing outcome measures for shared care in the treatment of depression U1 - General Literature U2 - 23995196 VL - 25 Suppl 2 VO - 0353-5053; 0353-5053 Y1 - 2013 ER -