Tag: Suicide

> And you speak a little bit about the importance of that continuity. > Yes. What we try to do is we try to be very consistent with the patient’s calling them every two weeks once they… especially if they started a new medication we want to know like how they’re doing if they’re having any reported side effects, that we can communicate with the primary care doctor. The other thing that we do is call them on a monthly basis and we asked the same questions on the ph-9 questionnaire to see if there’s been any progress made. This helps us monitor you know their feelings and also you know we are there to link them to providers psychiatry, psychology. We stress the importance… –To close that gap — that’s that gap in care like we say right. Let’s talk dr. Frankel a little bit about gg7. > So that GED seven are our anxiety screening questionnaire depression and anxiety oftentimes go hand-in-hand and patients may come in seeing that they’re having anxiety or panic attacks and this is another screening tool we do to basically quantify the symptoms patients are expressing with their words and kind of give us an idea of how much anxiety they’re having many times we will then give them a ph-9 and kind of put the depression anxiety together if they have both of those overlying diagnoses is the treatment is also very similar the support of the supportive network with the empowerment program you know getting patients linked into mental health or some sort of behavioral therapy and the medications we use to treat depression are also used to treat anxiety it oftentimes coexists.