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-WilliamsPublished 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.