The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, or PHQ-2 to 9, is a widely used screening tool for depression, and in the context of nursing homes and PDPM it takes on even greater importance.

Background: The brief Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is commonly used to screen for depression with 10 often recommended as the cut-off score. We summarized the psychometric properties of the ...

Primary care providers are well positioned to address emotional eating because of their long-term relationships with patients ...

November 1, 2010 — The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) has "high" sensitivity and "good" specificity for detecting major depression in adolescents in a primary care setting, new research ...

The health questionnaire is a “patient reported outcome" or PRO, which is a set of questions that only you (the patient) can answer. University of Utah Health has branded our collection of patient ...

Prolonged cortisol elevation is linked to numerous mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety. UC researchers created a lab-on-a-chip system to track a patient's cortisol levels.

Implementing the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) in a hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) clinic improved the ability of dermatologists to detect patients at risk for depression, results from a ...

At that time, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a set of nine questions that help clinicians identify signs and symptoms of depression, will transition to the PHQ-2 to 9.

Then the bill came. The Patient: Christine Rogers, 60, a public relations/communications worker who is insured by Cigna Healthcare through her job. Medical Services: An annual wellness visit ...