Nature

Scope of the OSCE in the assessment of clinical skills in dentistry

Introduction The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is now an accepted tool in the assessment of clinical skills in dentistry. There are however no strict or limiting guidelines on the ...
Medscape

Assessing Depression in Primary Care with the PHQ-9: Can It Be Carried Out over the Telephone?

Background: Telephone assessment of depression for research purposes is increasingly being used. The Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item depression module (PHQ-9) is a well-validated, brief, ...
CMAJ

Optimal cut-off score for diagnosing depression with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): a meta-analysis

Background: The brief Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is commonly used to screen for depression with 10 often recommended as the cut-off score. We summarized the psychometric properties of the ...
Medscape

Can 3 Questions Accurately Flag Depression? PHQ-3 Put to the Test

A brief, 3-question version of the widely used Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) may provide a faster, yet still accurate, way for physicians to screen for depression, new research suggests. In a ...