Wayne Katon

Managed care and patient ratings of the quality of specialty care among patients with pain or depressive symptoms (2007)

Grembowski, David, Paschane, David, Diehr, Paula, Katon, Wayne, Martin, Diane, Patrick, Donald L

Abstract Background Managed care efforts to regulate access to specialists and reduce costs may lower quality of care. Few studies have examined whether managed care is associated with patient...

Identifying Depressed Patients With a High Risk of Comorbid Anxiety in Primary Care

Felker, Bradford L., Hedrick, Susan C., Chaney, Edmund F., Liu, Chuan-Fen, Heagerty, Patrick, Caples, Heather, ...

Background: Depressive and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in the primary care setting. There is evidence that patients with depression and comorbid anxiety are more severely impaired than...

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Surgical Evaluation and Outcome

Katon, Wayne, Kleinman, Arthur

There is increasing necessity for including an evaluation of psychosocial as well as biomedical factors when assessing the need for surgical intervention and its possible outcomes. Potential problems...

Chronic Anorexia Nervosa: Medical Mimic

Borson, Soo, Katon, Wayne

While anorexia nervosa is typically construed as an acute, dramatic disorder of younger women, long-term follow-up studies indicate that morbidity is chronic or relapsing in 30 percent to 50 percent...

Depression—Medical Utilization and Somatization

Katon, Wayne, Berg, Alfred O., Robins, Anthony J., Risse, Steven

We screened 147 primary care patients for depression using depression rating scales and a psychiatric interview. In the one year after screening, the patients with depression visited and phoned their...

Long term outcomes from the IMPACT randomised trial for depressed elderly patients in primary care

Hunkeler, Enid M, Katon, Wayne, Tang, Lingqi, Williams, John W, Kroenke, Kurt, Lin, Elizabeth H B, ...

Objective To determine the long term effectiveness of collaborative care management for depression in late life.

Depression and Comorbid Illness in Elderly Primary Care Patients: Impact on Multiple Domains of Health Status and Well-being

Noël, Polly Hitchcock, Williams, John W., Unützer, Jürgen, Worchel, Jason, Lee, Shuko, Cornell, John, ...

PURPOSE Our objective was to examine the relative association of depression severity and chronicity, other comorbid psychiatric conditions, and coexisting medical illnesses with multiple domains of...

Effects of Enhanced Depression Treatment on Diabetes Self-Care

Lin, Elizabeth H. B., Katon, Wayne, Rutter, Carolyn, Simon, Greg E., Ludman, Evette J., Von Korff, Michael, ...

PURPOSE Among patients with diabetes, major depression is associated with more diabetic complications, lower medication adherence, and poorer self-care of diabetes. We reported earlier that enhanced...

Identifying Depressed Patients With a High Risk of Comorbid Anxiety in Primary Care

Felker, Bradford L., Hedrick, Susan C., Chaney, Edmund F., Liu, Chuan-Fen, Heagerty, Patrick, Caples, Heather, ...

Background: Depressive and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in the primary care setting. There is evidence that patients with depression and comorbid anxiety are more severely impaired than...

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Surgical Evaluation and Outcome

Katon, Wayne, Kleinman, Arthur

There is increasing necessity for including an evaluation of psychosocial as well as biomedical factors when assessing the need for surgical intervention and its possible outcomes. Potential problems...

Chronic Anorexia Nervosa: Medical Mimic

Borson, Soo, Katon, Wayne

While anorexia nervosa is typically construed as an acute, dramatic disorder of younger women, long-term follow-up studies indicate that morbidity is chronic or relapsing in 30 percent to 50 percent...

Depression—Medical Utilization and Somatization

Katon, Wayne, Berg, Alfred O., Robins, Anthony J., Risse, Steven

We screened 147 primary care patients for depression using depression rating scales and a psychiatric interview. In the one year after screening, the patients with depression visited and phoned their...

Long term outcomes from the IMPACT randomised trial for depressed elderly patients in primary care

Hunkeler, Enid M, Katon, Wayne, Tang, Lingqi, Williams, John W, Kroenke, Kurt, Lin, Elizabeth H B, ...

Objective To determine the long term effectiveness of collaborative care management for depression in late life.

Depression and Comorbid Illness in Elderly Primary Care Patients: Impact on Multiple Domains of Health Status and Well-being

Noël, Polly Hitchcock, Williams, John W., Unützer, Jürgen, Worchel, Jason, Lee, Shuko, Cornell, John, ...

PURPOSE Our objective was to examine the relative association of depression severity and chronicity, other comorbid psychiatric conditions, and coexisting medical illnesses with multiple domains of...

Effects of Enhanced Depression Treatment on Diabetes Self-Care

Lin, Elizabeth H. B., Katon, Wayne, Rutter, Carolyn, Simon, Greg E., Ludman, Evette J., Von Korff, Michael, ...

PURPOSE Among patients with diabetes, major depression is associated with more diabetic complications, lower medication adherence, and poorer self-care of diabetes. We reported earlier that enhanced...

Socioeconomic status, depression disparities, and financial strain: what lies behind the income-depression relationship?

Frederick J. Zimmerman, Wayne Katon

Prior studies have consistently found the incidence and persistence of depression to be higher among persons with low incomes, but causal mechanisms for this relationship are not well understood....