Assessment of depression in medical patients: A systematic review of the utility of the Beck Depression Inventory-II

To perform a systematic review of the utility of the Beck Depression Inventory for detecting depression in medical settings, this article focuses on the revised version of the scale (Beck Depression Inventory-II), which was reformulated according to the DSM-IV criteria for major depression. We exami...

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Main Authors: Yuan-Pang Wang, Clarice Gorenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina / USP 2013-09-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322013000901274&lng=en&tlng=en