The appropriateness of antidepressant prescribing in primary care continues to elicit debate and regular research contributions.I carried out a single practice survey of depression management at a practice in south east London. The surgery's electronic records were searched for patients who had been treated for a diagnosis of depression, with or without anxiety between the dates of 1 January 2000 to 21 February 2007. These subject-records were then searched for aspects of management that had been put in place with demographic details and management recorded, A total of 91 patients were returned from the search population by the electronic records database search engine, this amounted to 4.5% of the 2031 registered patients.
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