Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 122-132 , May 2006

Does patient–provider gender concordance affect mental health care received by primary care patients with major depression?

  • Kitty S. Chan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Health Program, Santa Monica, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Kitty S. Chan, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 644, Baltimore, MD 21205.
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  • Chloe E. Bird, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Health Program, Santa Monica, California
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  • Robert Weiss, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Department of Biostatistics, Los Angeles, California
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  • Naihua Duan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Department of Biostatistics, Los Angeles, California
    • UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Los Angeles, California
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  • Lisa S. Meredith, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Health Program, Santa Monica, California
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  • Cathy D. Sherbourne, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Health Program, Santa Monica, California

Received 20 May 2005 ,Revised 1 February 2006 ,Accepted 24 February 2006.

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PII: S1049-3867(06)00037-5

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.03.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 122-132 , May 2006

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