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Depression Detection In Hospitalized Cardiac Patients, Martine S. Geddes
Depression Detection In Hospitalized Cardiac Patients, Martine S. Geddes
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Depression has been shown to increase an individual's risk for heart disease. Despite this finding, physicians are not identifying depression in their hospitalized cardiac patients. This study looked at hospitalized cardiac patients and determined whether their physicians were identifying depression in those that scored ≥ 5 on the PHQ-9 depression inventory. Methods included assessing patient depression during their stay at an intensive care unit using the PHQ-9. Those patients scoring ≥ 5 were determined as depressed. Chart audits were performed after the patient discharged from the hospital to discover whether physicians were identifying these patients as depressed. The results showed …