Antidepressant Prescription Practices among Primary Health Care Providers for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus_Juniper Publishers
CURRENT RESEARCH IN DIABETES & OBESITY JOURNAL JUNIPER PUBLISHERS Authored byBartlett G Abstract Purpose: Depression is a common comorbidity in people with diabetes that increases the risk of poor diabetes control and diabetes- related complications. While treatment of depression is expected to help, some antidepressants have been associated with impaired glucose metabolism. Evidence is lacking in the scope of this problem for people with diabetes. The objective of this study is to describe the prescription of antidepressants for diabetic patients with a focus on medications suspected to impair glucose control. Methods: A cross-sectional study of electronic medical record data from 115 primary care practices in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network was conducted. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the prescription of antidepressants for people with diabetes between 2009 and 2014. Results: From the sample, 17,258 diab...