title: Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines: depression.
abstract: The Ministry of Health (MOH) have updated the clinical practice guidelines on Depression to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based treatment for depression. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the MOH clinical practice guidelines on Depression, for the information of readers of the Singapore Medical Journal. Chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Ministry of Health website: http://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/Publications/guidelines/cpg/2012/depression.html. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Alexandra Hospital/Jurong Health Services, Singapore.
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authors.lastname: Chua
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mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents