Patient Characteristics in Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy of Depression Screening Tools.

Abbreviations: GAD = General Anxiety Disorder; MDD = Major Depressive Disorder; NR = Not reported; UK = United Kingdom; USA = United States of America.
aStudy reported diagnostic accuracy data for all 113 women in the study, and also after excluding women with MDD already treated with antidepressants and women with GAD already treated with antidepressants or anxiolytics (N = 103).
bMean age based on all 113 women in the study.
cDemographic data are based on full study sample of 109 patients, rather than the 79 patients included in the analyses reported in the table. The authors excluded 30 patients with anxiety or adjustment disorders, but not MDD, from diagnostic accuracy analyses.