Author(s): Nemis-White J; Torr E; Gogovor A; Marshall L; Ahmed S; Aylen J; Montague T;

Eleven Health Care in Canada (HCIC) surveys, spanning 1998-2014, offer a comprehensive overview of the changing perceptions of physician, nurse, pharmacist, administrator and public stakeholders of the nation's health status, its burden of illness and its quality and cost of care. Overall, there persists a universal sense of quality in our health syst ...

Article GUID: 25906461

Author(s): Montague T; Gogovor A; Ahmed S; Torr E; Aylen J; Marshall L; Henningsen N; Nemis-White J;

The Canadian public is aging. Population levels of excellent, or very good, health are decreasing, and the prevalence of chronic diseases is increasing. Timely access to caring and respectful care from health professionals, with supporting information transfer, are key qualities in patients' sense of centricity and hope for best outcomes. Data from th ...

Article GUID: 26718249

Author(s): Montague T; Gogovor A; Aylen J; Ashley L; Ahmed S; Martin L; Cochrane B; Adams O; Nemis-White J;

Canadians' health and its care continue to evolve. Chronic diseases affect more than 50% of our aging population, but the majority of public and professional stakeholders retain a sense of care quality. An emergent issue, however, is generating an increasingly wide debate. It is the concept o ...

Article GUID: 28550701

Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Ioannidis JPA; Sun Y; Negeri Z; He C; Wu Y; Krishnan A; Bhandari PM; Neupane D; Imran M; Rice DB; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Azar M; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein R ...

Objectives: Depression symptom questionnaires are not for diagnostic classification. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores =10 are nonetheless often used to estimate depression prevalence. We compared PHQ-9 =10 prevalence to Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Man ...

Article GUID: 32105798

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Sun Y; Krishnan A; He C; Riehm KE; Rice DB; Azar M; Yan XW; Neupane D; Bhandari PM; Imran M; Chiovitti MJ; Saadat N; Boruff JT; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; McMillan D; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein R ...

Objective: Two previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) found that different diagnostic interviews classify different proportions of people as having major depression overall or by symptom levels. We compared the odds of major depression classification across diagnostic intervi ...

Article GUID: 31911325

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein RC; Akena DH; Arroll B; Ayalon L; Baradaran HR; Baron M; Bombardier CH; ...

Background: Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, most positive responses are not associated with suicidality. The PHQ-8, which omits Item 9, is thus increasing ...

Article GUID: 31298180

Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Chiovitti MJ; Sanchez TA; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Steele RJ; Ziegelstein RC; Akena DH; Arroll B; Ayalon L; Bara ...

Background: Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-structured interviews involve clinical judgement, whereas fully structured interviews are completely scripted. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) ...

Article GUID: 29717691

Author(s): Ishihara M; Harel D; Levis B; Levis AW; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Azar M; Rice DB; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Arroll B; Bombardier CH; Butterworth P; Carter G; Clo ...

Background: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a short form of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a self-report questionnaire for assessing depressive symptomatology, using objective criteria. Methods: Responses on the PHQ-9 were obtained from 7,850 English-speaking ...

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