title: [Treating depression: decision analysis for the general practitioner].
abstract: Unipolar depression is among the leading causes of invalidity and disability-adjusted life-years. General practitioners frequently encounter patients suffering from depressive syndromes and very often, it's they, who make the initial diagnosis, take care of these patients, eventually prescribe an antidepressant treatment, identify difficult cases and address them to the specialists of mental health. In this article, we present concepts of diagnosis and differential diagnoses of depression, its therapy and the collaboration between the general practitioner and the psychiatrist/psychotherapist.
authors: Service des spécialités psychiatriques, Département de santé mentale et de psychiatrie, HUG, 1211 Geneve 14. markus.kosel@hcuge.ch
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Kosel
authors: Nader
authors: N
authors: Perroud
authors: Guido
authors: G
authors: Bondolfi
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D058005:General Practitioners; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors