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Fig. 1 | BMC Psychiatry

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From: Depression treatment in Germany – using claims data to compare a collaborative mental health care program to the general practitioner program and usual care in terms of guideline adherence and need-oriented access to psychotherapy

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Stacked barplot comparing treatment type by severity and health plan. GP general practitioner program, PNP psychiatry-neurology-psychotherapy contract, UC usual care. Psychotherapy was defined as at least one session and phamacotherapy as at least one antidepressant prescription within the 12-month observational period. We calculated the chi-square test with the Rao-Scott second order correction, in order to compare the proportion of the six different treatment types in the three health plans. N = 5.918 had a first episode and N = 4.879 a recurrent episode with a moderate severity. N = 2.458 had a first episode and N = 3.696 a recurrent episode with severe depression, *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001. For patients that received multiple diagnoses from different sources, we assigned the source with the highest validity (assuming psychiatrists/psychotherapists > neurologist > primary care physician > other discipline)

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