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Review: ultra-short screening tests are not highly accurate for detecting depression in primary care
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Q Do ultra-short screening instruments accurately detect depression in primary care?
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Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (all to June 2006); Science Direct; Ingenta Select; Ovid Full Text; Wiley Interscience; and Web of Knowledge.
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primary studies assessing the diagnostic validity of ultra-short depression screening instruments (ie, those with 1–4 items, taking <2 min to complete) in primary care patients. Studies of visual analogue scales and those that did not comply with …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Dr A J Mitchell, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK. alex.mitchell{at}leicspart.nhs.uk
Source of funding: no external funding.