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National Guideline Clearinghouse | Recommendations on screening for depression in adults.
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 Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care

September 30, 2013

Guideline Title

Recommendations on screening for depression in adults.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Joffres M, Jaramillo A, Dickinson J, Lewin G, Pottie K, Shaw E, Connor Gorber S, Tonelli M, Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Recommendations on screening for depression in adults. CMAJ. 2013 Jun 11;185(9):775-82. [42 references] PubMed

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.
This guideline updates a previous version: Macmillan HL, Patterson CJ, Wathen CN. Screening for depression in primary care: recommendation statement from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. CMAJ. 2005 Jan 4;172(1):33-5. [13 references]
A complete list of planned reviews, updates and revisions is available under the What's New section at the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) Web site .
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CMAJ. 2013 Jun 11;185(9):775-82. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.130403. Epub 2013 May 13.

Recommendations on screening for depression in adults.

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, Joffres M, Jaramillo A, Dickinson J, Lewin G, Pottie K, Shaw E, Connor Gorber S, Tonelli M.

Source

Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

Comment in

• Why screening for depression in primary care is impractical. [CMAJ. 2013]

PMID:

23670157

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID:

PMC3680556

[Available on 2014/6/11]

Recommendations on screening for depression in adults. [CMAJ. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI 

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