Screening for suicidality in cancer patients using Item 9 of the nine-item patient health questionnaire; does the item score predict who requires further assessment?

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 218-220

  Walker, Jane ^a   Hansen, Christian Holm ^a   Hodges, Laura ^a   Thekkumpurath, Parvez ^a   O'Connor, Mark ^a   Sharma, Neelom ^a   Kleiboer, Annet ^a   Murray, Gordon ^a   Kroenke, Kurt ^b   Sharpe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Screening; Suicidality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950689097     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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