Palliative medicine
-
Palliative medicine · Jun 2016
Multicenter StudyThe Edmonton Symptom Assessment System: Poor performance as screener for major depression in patients with incurable cancer.
Depressive symptoms are prevalent in patients with advanced cancer, sometimes of a severity that fulfil the criteria for a major depressive episode. ⋯ The depression and anxiety items of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, a frequently used assessment tool in palliative care settings, seem to measure a construct other than major depressive episode as assessed by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 instrument.