STAT Depression Screening PHQ-9!

What objective criteria do you use to diagnose depression and determine the severity? Do you document any improvement on subsequent visits?Quickly review and score the PHQ-9 on your device. There are two components of the PHQ-9: Assessing symptoms and functional impairment to make a tentative depression diagnosis, and Deriving a severity score to help select and monitor treatment The PHQ-9 is based directly on the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fourth Edition (DSM-IV).