STAT

Health care organizations screening for depression are skipping a critical question

Fitzpatrick is a behavioral health care quality manager at Epic Systems. Engel, M.D., Ph.D., is a recent graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year psychiatry resident at Stanford. Boyd, M.D.
Healio

Common depression screening tool 'better than expected' for identifying suicidal ideation

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PHQ-9 was more effective than suicidal ideation screening in identifying patients who would attempt suicide ...
Psychology Today

9 Questions to Ask When Screening for Depression

Have you experienced any depressive symptoms over the past two weeks? Do you think you could be suffering from clinical depression? If so, you might want to consider filling out a brief Patient Health ...
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Depression detection has never been more important: PHQ-9 enables clinicians and patients to track and address depression with combined physical and emotion symptoms score

INDIANAPOLIS – The COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, economic dislocations and other concerns have affected mental health around the globe. Clinical depression, which affects 300 million individuals ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Use of PHQ-9, Patient-Centered Right Care Increases Rate of Depression Screening

Portrait Of Female Doctor Comforting Depressed Patient Researchers sought to improve depression screening from 0% to 30% in an 8-week period by implementing the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and ...