- The choice of depression medications in primary care is difficult as there are many choices.
- The best evidence does not indicate clear winners in terms of efficacy.
- The choice is then mostly across agents’ toxicity, burdens, and costs, issues patients care about.
Decision aids to be used during the encounter:
Online decision aid (English)
Paper-based decision aid:
(click on the titles under each language to download the PDF of each card)
- Take Home Brochure (English) for patients
- Spanish Depression Aid
- Take home Brochure (Spanish)) for patients
Additional resources:
- Storyboard showing the steps in using the cards (Spanish version)
- Video demonstration of how to use the cards
DISCLAIMER: No decision aid replaces the conversation patients should have with their clinicians to make important, clinical decisions. Use of these decision aids carries no liability to its developers or to the Mayo Clinic Foundation for Education and Research.
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