Treatment Guide for Doctors Moves to Next Phase

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After six years of work and a budget of $33 million, the Sequences Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) project, is set to move away from academic centers and into the busy real world environment of clinical practice. During the research phase, more than 4,000 treatm...

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Thanks STAR*D
rev soc bloem
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 12:16 PM

Dear Dr. K.

Thanks for this interesting piece on recent research. I liked the statement that we need to bridge research to the "real world". Many of the clients that I see in the U.S.A. cannot afford the best treatment that academia has afforded us.

Managed Care is another movement in the U.S. that is vigorous in moving patients in and out of acute car and inhibits the spending of money that helps the depressed.

We need to advocate for the oppressed mentally ill. Their voice is usually muffled by those who see them as a poverty industry.

Rev. Steve Bloem

Heartfelt Ministries

Grand Rapids, MI

U.S.A.

re: Thanks STAR*D
Jerry Kennard
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 01:44 PM

Thanks for your email. I'm interested in what you said about your organisation. Do you have any more details you could send me?