Importance Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy synthesize data from primary
diagnostic studies that have evaluated the accuracy of 1 or more index tests against a reference …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence and persistence of depression in patients with
acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and the relationship between assessment modality and …

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Rice DB, Thombs BD. Risk of bias from inclusion of currently diagnosed or treated patients in …

Objective To evaluate the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for screening to
detect major depression in pregnant and postpartum women. Design Individual participant …

Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies are fundamental to the decision
making process in evidence based medicine. Although such studies are regarded as high …

Objective A meta-analysis of over 25 years of research into the relationship between post-myocardial
infarction (MI) depression and cardiac prognosis was conducted to investigate …

Context Several practice guidelines recommend that depression be evaluated and treated in
patients with cardiovascular disease, but the potential benefits of this are unclear. Objective …

Importance The Patient Health Questionnaire depression module (PHQ-9) is a 9-item self-administered
instrument used for detecting depression and assessing severity of depression. …

Researchers increasingly use meta-analysis to synthesize the results of several studies in
order to estimate a common effect. When the outcome variable is continuous, standard meta-…

… Esselman PC, Thombs BD, Magyar-Russell G, Fauerbach JA: Burn rehabilitation: State
of the science. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2006;85:383–413. … describes the use of the Test d’Evaluation …