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= Registered usersPractitioner 2009;253(1716):7
Do depression questionnaires influence GPs' management?
25 Apr 2009
The fact that an almost identical proportion of patients were given antidepressant treatment despite the large discrepancy between the severity ratings would suggest that the questionnaire scores had only a limited influence on the decision whether or not to prescribe. This may reflect a problem with the PHQ-9 threshold: the authors suggest that if this were raised to ≥ 12 this would correlate better with GPs' diagnostic thresholds.
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