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is investigating ways to improve how health care providers without psychiatric backgrounds can manage depression in heart patients, including finding ways to boost providers' confidence that they can appropriately manage such patients. She and her Duke colleagues have also been conducting a clinical trial investigating whether selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors will improve the cardiac prognosis of heart failure patients with depression. They are currently recruiting patients to the study and hope to publish the results of the study in middle of 2008.

"Many times it can be impractical to make sure every patient with heart failure sees a psychiatrist," Jiang said. "That is why it is so important to improve the knowledge and confidence of nonpsychiatric professionals for care of depression."

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Contact: Richard Merritt
Merri006@mc.duke.edu
919-684-4148
Duke University Medical Center
13-Nov-2006


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