The geriatric depression scale is a self-reported screening survey to help detect depression in older adults. There’s a short version with 15 questions and a long version with 30. The geriatric ...

Fitzpatrick is a behavioral health care quality manager at Epic Systems. Engel, M.D., Ph.D., is a recent graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year psychiatry resident at Stanford. Boyd, M.D.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PHQ-9M for teens includes four additional questions about depression and suicidal ideation. The extra ...

A brief, 3-question version of the widely used Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) may provide a faster, yet still accurate, way for physicians to screen for depression, new research suggests. In a ...

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a tool most clinicians are familiar with. It's quick, familiar, and widely trusted across health care settings. However, when a patient's results indicate ...