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Assessing diagnostic approaches to depression in medically ill older adults: how reliably can mental health professionals make judgements about the cause of symptoms?
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Assessing diagnostic approaches to depression in medically ill older adults: how reliably can mental health professionals make judgements about the cause of symptoms?

H Koenig, P Pappas, T Holsinger and J Bachar
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), Vol.43(5), pp.472-478
01/05/1995

Abstract

Depression Diagnosis Mentally ill elderly people
Suggests that mental health professionals can be trained to make judgements reliably about the cause (medical or psychological) of symptoms in hospitalized older medical patients. The 'strict inclusive' and other diagnostic schemes for counting symptoms toward the diagnosis of depression have only marginal, if any, benefit compared with the current DSM-IV approach. (Original abstract-amended)

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