PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) - MDCalc
The PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) objectifies and assesses degree of depression severity via questionnaire.
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The PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) objectifies and assesses degree of depression severity via questionnaire.
Patient completes PHQ-9 Quick Depression Assessment. If there are at least 4 3s in the shaded section (including Questions #1 and #2), consider a depressive disorder. Add score to determine severity.
Developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute.
The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is an indispensable tool in modern healthcare, offering a quick, validated method for screening, assessing severity, and monitoring the response to treatment for depression. ...
Patient completes PHQ-9 Quick Depression Assessment. If there are at least 4 3s in the shaded section (including Questions #1 and #2), consider a depressive disorder. Add score to determine severity.
The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is an easy-to-use patient questionnaire for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and measuring the severity of depression.
The PHQ-9 is brief and useful in clinical practice. The PHQ-9 is completed by the patien in minutes and is rapidly scored by the clinician. The PHQ-9 can also be administered repeatedly, which can reflect improvement
Patient completes PHQ-9 Quick Depression Assessment. If there are at least 4 s in the shaded section (including Questions #1 and #2), consider a depressive disorder. Add score to determine severity.
The PHQ-9 was created to provide a quick, reliable method for evaluating the presence and severity of depressive symptoms based on the criteria outlined in the DSM.
USING THE PHQ-9 TO ASSESS PATIENT RESPONSE TO TREATMENT The goal of acute phase treatment is remission of symptoms as indicated by a PHQ-9 Score of < 5 points. Patients who achieve this goal enter into the continuatio...