What is the most important thing learned from Level 1 about measuring depression and side effects?
A. It is important that this comprehensive, nationwide study of depression used in a systematic and consistent way, easy-to-use ratings of symptoms and side effects that can readily be incorporated into real-world medical and psychiatric settings. These research tools worked well in the real world practices in this study, and this measurement-based care may have contributed to obtaining greater than expected remission rates. The study demonstrated that most depressed patients can quickly and easily complete systematic ratings of their symptoms as well as estimate their side effect burden on their own in a very short time. Their doctors can then rely on these self-rated tools for accurate and useful information to make informed judgments about treatment without taking time in their busy schedules to administer them. The patients can also use these tools to participate in managing their illness at home in the same way, for example, that hypertensive patients can measure their own blood p
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