Macroeconomics

Depression (economics)

Psychiatry

Economics

Data mining

Computer science

Anxiety

Patient Health Questionnaire

Measure (data warehouse)

Medicine

Depressive symptoms

Psychiatric Annals

and treatable mental disorders presenting in general medical as well as specialty settings. There are a number of case-finding instruments for detecting depression in primary care, ranging from 2 to 28 items.1,2 Typically these can be scored as continuous measures of depression severity and also have established cutpoints above which the probability of major depression is substantially increased. Scores on these various measures tend to be highly correlated3, with little evidence that one measure is superior to any other.1,2,4

The PHQ-9: A New Depression Diagnostic and Severity Measure