A bedrock of the U.S. mental health system — a nine-item questionnaire used to spot depression — began not with a doctor, but with a marketing man. Howard Kroplick, now 73 years old and living on Long ...
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.
Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression, might be one of the more common mental health diagnoses around, but there is still plenty of stigma around the diagnosis and about mental ...
Due to legal liability concerns, some healthcare organizations are leaving off the ninth item about suicidality when screening for depression with the widely used Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9 ...
A brief, 3-question version of the widely used Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) may provide a faster, yet still accurate, way for physicians to screen for depression, new research suggests. In a ...
September 30, 2010 — The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 may help identify depression in primary care elderly patients, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the September 1 ...
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 ...
Purpose We provide detailed instructions for analyzing patient-reported outcome (PRO) data collected with an existing (legacy) instrument so that scores can be calibrated to the PRO Measurement ...
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 ...