Diabetes, Depression, and Death: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Depression Treatment Program for Older Adults Based in Primary Care (PROSPECT)
Response to Bogner et al.
- Brett D. Thombs, PHD1 and
- Roy C. Ziegelstein, MD2
- 1Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
- 2Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Corresponding author: Brett D. Thombs, PhD, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, 4333 Cote Ste Catherine Rd., Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E4. E-mail: brett.thombs{at}mcgill.ca
Recently, in Diabetes Care, Bogner et al. (1) reported results from the Prevention of Suicide in Primary Care Elderly: Collaborative Trial (PROSPECT) study that examined a care-management intervention for older primary care patients with depression. The authors reported that, compared with usual care, the intervention reduced 5-year all-cause mortality among diabetic patients with major or minor depression but not among depressed patients without diabetes. Although not mentioned by Bogner et al., an article by Gallo et al. in the Annals of Internal Medicine (2) that included all the authors of the Bogner et al. study reported that this same care-management …
