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An ultra-brief screening scale for anxiety and depression: the PHQ-4.

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The PHQ-4 is a valid ultra-brief tool for detecting both anxiety and depressive disorders and has a substantial effect on functional status that was independent of depression.
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This article is published in Psychosomatics.The article was published on 2009-11-01. It has received 2343 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anxiety disorder & Anxiety.

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The International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (beta version)

Jes Olesen, +131 more
- 01 Jul 2013 - 
TL;DR: The International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3 edition (beta version), may be reproduced freely for scientific, educational or clinical uses by institutions, societies or individuals as mentioned in this paper. But the authors require the permission of the International Headache Society.
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The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review.

TL;DR: In this article, the psychometric and pragmatic characteristics of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)-7 anxiety and PHQ-15 somatic symptom scales are synthesized from two sources: (1) four multisite cross-sectional studies (three conducted in primary care and one in obstetric-gynecology practices) comprising 9740 patients, and (2) key studies from the literature that have studied these scales.
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Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD) for Clinical and Research Applications: recommendations of the International RDC/TMD Consortium Network* and Orofacial Pain Special Interest Group†

TL;DR: The newly recommended evidence-based new DC/TMD protocol is appropriate for use in both clinical and research settings and includes both a valid screener for detecting any pain-related TMD as well as valid diagnostic criteria for differentiating the most common pain- related TMD.
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A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population.

TL;DR: Results from this study support the reliability and validity of thePHQ-4, PHQ-2, and GAD-2 as ultra-brief measures of depression and anxiety in the general population and can be used to compare a subject's scale score with those determined from a general population reference group.
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An inventory for measuring depression

TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.

John E. Ware, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1992 - 
TL;DR: A 36-item short-form survey designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study is constructed.
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The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure.

TL;DR: In addition to making criteria-based diagnoses of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity, which makes it a useful clinical and research tool.
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Comparing the areas under two or more correlated receiver operating characteristic curves: a nonparametric approach.

TL;DR: A nonparametric approach to the analysis of areas under correlated ROC curves is presented, by using the theory on generalized U-statistics to generate an estimated covariance matrix.
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