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| Screening for depression on continuing care psychogeriatric wards | | Author(s) | Ajit Shah, Timothy Gray |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 1, January 1997 |
| Pages | pp 125-127 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Dementia ; Psychogeriatric units ; Long term patients ; Screening ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The performance of the Depressive Signs Scale (DSS), completed by nursing staff, in detecting significant clinical depression among continuing care psychogeriatric inpatients was examined at a large psychiatric hospital in Melbourne, Australia. A cutoff score of 5/6 gave satisfactory sensitivity and specificity for detecting depression in the whole sample and a dementia subsample. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807215 A |
| Classmark | ENR: EA: LDM: LF7:4Q: 3V: 7YA |
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