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. 2002 Jul;52(480):563–566.

Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners and recognition of depression in primary care.

Andrew Martyn Thornett 1, Ruth M Pickering 1, Tracy Willis 1, Chris Thompson 1
PMCID: PMC1314359  PMID: 12120729

Abstract

To determine the effect of membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) on recognition of depression, odds ratios, Lowess-smoothed plots, and regression models were produced for recognition rates in a representative sample of 20,818 patient contacts for members and non-members of the RCGP Membership of the RCGP did not appear to convey greater ability to discriminate between depressed and non-depressed patients, but members were more likely to recognise depression in both depressed and non-depressed individuals.

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