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Blended Collaborative Care for Treating Heart Failure and Co-Morbid Depression: Primary Findings from the Hopeful Heart Trial

Dr. Bruce Rollman is the UPMC Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his highly influential two decades of research in depression and cardiovascular care, including the “Hopeful Heart Trial”, his most recent NIH-funded study that examined the impact of a “blended” collaborative care strategy for treating both heart failure and co-morbid depression.

Released: 9/9/2020

References

Belnap BH, Anderson, A, Abebe KZ, et al. Blended Collaborative Care to Treat Heart Failure and Comorbid Depression: Rational and Study Design of the Hopeful Heart Trial, Psychosomatic Medicine. 2019; 81:495-505.

Schuster JM, Belnap BH, Roth LH, et. al. The Checklist Manifesto in Action: Integrating Depression Treatment Into Routine Cardiac Care, General Hospital Psychiatry. 2016; 40: 1-3.

Rollman BL, Belnap BH, et al. Telephone-Delivered Collaborative Care for Treating Post-CABG Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Journal of the American Medical Association. 2009; 302: 2095-2103.

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