Key result
Modified nurse-assisted screening fails to increase psychiatric referral rates over usual care.
Why the study?
The original nurse-assisted screening and psychiatric referral program had a high refusal rate despite nurse-recommended referrals to all positively screened depressive patients, prompting modification of the program.
Does a modified nurse-assisted screening and psychiatric referral program increase psychiatric referral proportions in depressive patients compared to usual care or the original program?
Observational
Does a modified nurse-assisted screening and psychiatric referral program increase psychiatric referral proportions in depressive patients compared to usual care or the original program?
Absolute Event Rate: 4.4% vs 2.5%
Allowing nurses to judge final eligibility for psychiatric referral after screening did not improve referral rates for depressive patients compared to usual care.
Modified nurse screening failed to boost psychiatric referrals; leaves open need for alternative strategies in cancer depression care.
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Shimizu et al. (2008) conducted an observational in Depression. Modified nurse-assisted screening and psychiatric referral program (NASPRP) vs. Usual care and original NASPRP was evaluated on Psychiatric referral proportion. The modified nurse-assisted screening and psychiatric referral program yielded referral proportions of 4.4% and 3.9%, which were not significantly higher than usual care (2.5%).
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