Depression symptomatology and diagnosis: discordance between patients and physicians in primary care settings
Open Access
- 3 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Family Practice
- Vol. 9 (1) , 1
Abstract
To examine the agreement between depression symptoms using an assessment tool (PHQ-9), and physician documentation of the same symptoms during a clinic visit, and then to examine how the presence of these symptoms affects depression diagnosis in primary care settings.Keywords
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