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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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Boxplots on the amount of therapy sessions by severity and health plan. Only shows patients with at least 1 therapy session within the observational period. The smaller boxes above the boxplots present the proportion of patients that receive psychotherapy. A session was defined as a service that requires 50 min interaction with a licensed psychotherapists. We plotted the estimated marginal means and confidence bands (± 1 Standarderror) from the two-part model. GP general practitioner program, PNP psychiatry-neurology-psychotherapy contract, UC usual care. N = 5.918 had a first episode and N = 4.879 a recurrent episode with a moderate severity. N = 2458 had a first episode and N = 3.696 a recurrent episode with severe depression. For patients that received multiple diagnoses with different severities, we assigned the diagnosis with the highest severity (assuming F33 > F32 and severe > moderate > light)

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BMC Psychiatry

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