The clinical significance of subsyndromal depression in older primary care patients

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 214-223

  Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a,c   Kim, Jaehyun ^a,c   Tang, Wan ^b   Tu, Xin ^a,b   Conwell, Yeates ^a   King, Deborah A ^a   Caine, Eric D ^a  

^a Departments of Psychiatry   (South Korea)

^b Biostatistics and Computational Biology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Geriatrics; Primary care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SUBSYNDROMAL DEPRESSION; AGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34250173522     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.JGP.0000235763.50230.83     Document Type: Article

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