Best Practices in Depression Screening

Travis Dobbs, family nurse practitioner, will share the workflow and team approach to adopt best practices and improve the quality of behavioral health identification, intervention, referral and follow-up in primary care practices.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify which screening tools are practical to use in primary care
• Describe how to interpret screening results and develop follow-up plan resources/referral
• List strategies for incorporating depression screening into the workflow of a primary care office
• Define accurate coding for reimbursement
• Summarize alignment of depression screening with quality measurement and improvement

Suggested audience: Hospital and Physician Office Staff, Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Certified Nurse Midwives, Physician Assistants