Author(s): Rice DB; Kloda LA; Levis B; Qi B; Kingsland E; Thombs BD;

Objective: Database searches for studies of diagnostic test accuracy are notoriously difficult to filter, highly resource-intensive, and a potential barrier to quality evidence synthesis. We examined published meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy to evaluate the (1) proportion of included primary studies found in any online database in the ...

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Author(s): Nassar EL; Levis B; Rice DB; Booij L; Benedetti A; Thombs BD;

Objectives: Screening is done to improve health outcomes by identifying and effectively treating individuals with unrecognized conditions. Depression screening has been proposed to identify previously unrecognized depression cases. Including individuals already diagnosed or treated for depression in screening test accuracy studies could exaggerate accurac ...

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