Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:1021-1024
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Diagnosis of major depression in cancer patients according to four sets of criteria
RG Kathol, A Mutgi, J Williams, G Clamon and R Noyes Jr
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City 55242.
Diagnoses of major depression in 152 cancer patients differed as much as
13% depending on the diagnostic system used. The Beck Depression Inventory
and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression were useful tools for
screening patients with depressive symptoms but frequently misclassified
those who had no major depression according to one or more of the
criteria-based diagnostic systems.
