Improving mental and physical health outcomes in general healthcare settings: a Gedenkschrift in honor of Wayne Katon, MD (1950–2015)

This special article pays tribute to Wayne Katon, MD (1950–2015) with a Gedenkschrift, or review, of his prolific academic career. Abstracts of all of Dr. Katon's Medline citations were reviewed to develop a narrative of his seminal epidemiological and interventional research findings. Specifically, we describe: (a) how Dr. Katon's clinical work and observational epidemiology and health services research informed and guided interventional studies; (b) the evolution of multidisciplinary interventional trials from primary care-based psychiatric consultation to primary care-based collaborative care for depression to multicondition collaborative care; and (c) how Dr.

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - July 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dimitry S. Davydow, Jodie G. Katon, Bruce L. Rollman, Jürgen Unützer Source Type: research