Methodological quality of meta-analyses of the diagnostic accuracy of depression screening tools

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 84, Issue , 2016, Pages 84-92

  Rice, Danielle B ^a,b   Shrier, Ian ^b,c   Kloda, Lorie A ^d   Benedetti, Andrea ^a,c,e   Thombs, Brett D ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMSTAR; Depression; Diagnostic test accuracy; Meta analyses; Quality; Screening

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FUNDING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; PSYCINFO; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MASS SCREENING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84962645337     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.03.013     Document Type: Article

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