The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, or PHQ-2 to 9, is a widely used screening tool for depression, and in the context of nursing homes and PDPM it takes on even greater importance.

Among the 202 who screened negative initially on the PHQ-2, 194 (96.0%) still had negative results on the second PHQ-2 and 190 (94.0%) screened negative on the PHQ-9, having a score of less than 11.

September 30, 2010 — The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 may help identify depression in primary care elderly patients, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the ...

At that time, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a set of nine questions that help clinicians identify signs and symptoms of depression, will transition to the PHQ-2 to 9.

Background: The brief Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is commonly used to screen for depression with 10 often recommended as the cut-off score. We summarized the psychometric properties of the ...

The PHQ-9 is a well-validated set of 9 questions that screen for the presence of depression. It is used by clinicians to quantify a person’s response to treatment.

In a retrospective study, positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy was associated with significantly improved scores on the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) over 6 months (mean decline -0.4, P ...