Shows the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) among the elderly a higher screening accuracy than other screening instruments?;Ist die Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) bei älteren menschen valider als andere depressionsscreening-instrumente?

Neuropsychiatrie

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 240-249

  Wancata, Johannes ^a   Alexandrovic, Rainer ^b   Marquart, Barbara ^a   Weiss, Maria ^a   Friedrich, Fabian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly; Geriatric Depression Scale; Meta analysis; Screening; Sensitivity, specificity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGING; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 33846181610     PISSN: 09486259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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