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Comparing the hospital anxiety and depression scale to the Brief Edinburgh Depression Scale for identifying cases of major depressive disorder in advanced cancer palliative patients.

Oscar Rodríguez-MayoralAdriana Peña-NievesSilvia Allende-PérezMari Lloyd-Williams
Published in: Palliative & supportive care (2021)
The BEDS outperformed the HADS-D tool in discriminating patients with and without depression. A BEDS cutoff value of ≥5 is suggested as a case-finding score for depression in this population.
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