The validity of child and adolescent depression diagnoses in the Danish psychiatric central research register.
Line Hofmann FrederiksenNiels BilenbergLene AndersenNatasha HenriksenJan JørgensenHans-Christoph SteinhausenRikke WesselhoeftPublished in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2020)
Childhood depression diagnoses registered in the DPCRR show a satisfactory validity according to both ICD-10 and DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Diagnostic validity increased steadily from 2000 to 2016 and was positively correlated with antidepressant use. Depression diagnoses assigned in emergency departments had low diagnostic validity.