We would like to commend Gilbody et al1 on their decision to systematically investigate the value of an interdisciplinary approach to improving the outcomes of depressed patients in primary care. Unfortunately, the results of our investigation, as presented in their meta-analysis, were both inaccurate and misleading, and a subsequent clarification is warranted.2
First, the authors appear to have cited our study incorrectly and we cannot be certain what data were actually included in their meta-analysis. The reference the authors listed was from a non–peer-reviewed publication, which merely described the intervention and treatment protocol we developed.3 Consequently, we can only surmise that the data they included were drawn from our randomized controlled trial,2 though it may have been excerpted from a nonrandomized investigation we conducted, which reported similar findings.4