PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | artery disease |
| Phenotype | C0041696|major depressive disorder |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22566744 | Studies have consistently demonstrated that the prognosis, outcome, and treatment adherence for coronary artery disease (cad) patients with comorbid major depressive disorder (mdd) is worse than in those without mdd.1–4 thus, accurate identification of mdd in cad patients is critical.5,6 many hospitals (including most veteran’s affairs [va] hospitals) screen for depression annually using the patient health questionnaire (phq-9), a questionnaire which assesses for depressive symptoms over the previous two weeks.7–9 while the phq-9 has demonstrated adequate validity at correctly identifying patients with mdd, screening for depression annually may miss a large number of cases (ie, false negatives) as the episodes of mdd may not correspond with the timing of the screening. |
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