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Screening for Depression on Continuing Care Psychogeriatric Wards

✍ Scribed by AJIT SHAH; TIMOTHY GRAY

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 79 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199701)12:1<125::aid-gps416>3.0.co;2-r

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✦ Synopsis

The performance of the Depressive Signs Scale (DSS), completed by the nursing sta, in detecting signi®cant clinical depression among continuing care psychogeriatric inpatients was examined. A cuto score of 5/6 gave the best sensitivity (70%) and speci®city (72%) in the whole sample. The same cuto value gave the best sensitivity (62%) and speci®city (72%) in the dementia subsample.

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