Telephone-Based Collaborative Care Model Manages Depression & Anxiety In Patients With Heart Disease

A telephone-based collaborative care intervention helped older adults with heart disease manage depression, anxiety, and panic disorder, and improved the patient’s health-related quality of life. The 24-week intervention used a social work care manager to coordinate assessments and care of psychiatric conditions and to provide patient support. Compared to a control group who received usual care, those who received the collaborative care intervention had greater average improvement in quality of life, based on improvement in their mental health scores after participating for 24 weeks. Those in the intervention group also reported better symptom improvement and general . . .