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Depression in heart failure a meta-analytic review of prevalence, intervention effects, and associations with clinical outcomes

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In sum, clinically significant depression is present in at least 1 in 5 patients with HF; however, depression rates can be much higher among patients screened with questionnaires or with more advanced HF.
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This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 2006-10-17 and is currently open access. It has received 1400 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Depression (differential diagnoses) & Population.

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ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008

TL;DR: Guidelines and Expert Consensus Documents summarize and evaluate all currently available evidence on a particular issue with the aim of assisting physicians and other healthcare providers in selecting the best management strategies for a typical patient, suffering from a given condition, taking into account the impact on outcome, as well as the risk–benefit ratio of particular diagnostic or therapeutic means.
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Esc guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008

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HFSA 2010 Comprehensive Heart Failure Practice Guideline.

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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population

TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the introduction of the scales into general hospital practice would facilitate the large task of detection and management of emotional disorder in patients under investigation and treatment in medical and surgical departments.
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Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report

TL;DR: A new Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) designed specifically for rating depression in the elderly was tested for reliability and validity and compared with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS) as discussed by the authors.
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A self-rating depression scale.

TL;DR: The general depression scales used were felt to be insufficient for the purpose of this research project and the more specific scales were also inadequate.
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Development of a Rating Scale for Primary Depressive Illness

TL;DR: This is an account of further work on a rating scale for depressive states, including a detailed discussion on the general problems of comparing successive samples from a ‘population’, the meaning of factor scores, and the other results obtained.
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