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Follow-up


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Follow-up

  • Suicide risk
  • Medications
  • Managing side effects of antidepressants
  • Psychotherapy
  • Disability assessment
    • "Managing workplace mental health and occupational disability" from Antidepressant Skills at Work
  • Reducing the risk of relapse
    • Preventing Relapse of Depression" from HereToHelp.BC


Guidelines for follow-up
  • Recommend follow-up by phone or in person in one week depending upon the severity of the condition and every 2 weeks thereafter until remission
  • Suicidal patients will need closer follow-up
  • Once remission is achieved gradually decrease the frequency of follow-up to a minimum of every 3 months during the first year
  • Consider annual follow-up once stable




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