Table 3.

Number of monitoring visits completed by 100,000 Department of Veterans Affairs patients receiving treatment for depression in the 12 weeks after the first treatment event of interest

Number of visits	Overall (N=76,877)		Antidepressant (N=75,803)		Psychiatric hospitalization (N=9,385)		New anti- depressant start (N=56,713)		Other anti- depressant start (N=27,650)		Dosage change (N=35,290)
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
0	15,349	20.0	14,646	19.3	2,275	24.2	11,580	20.4	4,408	15.9	7,293	20.7
1	26,356	34.3	26,120	34.5	1,691	18	20,324	35.8	7,576	27.4	10,842	30.7
2	15,136	19.7	15,187	20.0	1,264	13.5	11,183	19.7	5,937	21.5	6,686	18.9
3	7,789	10.1	7,858	10.4	925	9.9	5,395	9.5	3,543	12.8	3,793	10.7
4	3,862	5.0	3,912	5.2	570	6.1	2,735	4.8	1,902	6.9	1,906	5.4
5	2,158	2.8	2,201	2.9	362	3.9	1,470	2.6	1,060	3.8	1,108	3.1
6	1,376	1.8	1,413	1.9	291	3.1	931	1.6	730	2.6	724	2.1
≥7	4,851	6.3	4,834	6.4	2,007	21.4	3,095	5.5	2,494	9.0	2,938	8.3
M±SD	2.34±3.81		2.37±3.85		4.88±7.60		2.21±3.66		2.87±4.19		2.59±4.20