Author(s): Rice DB; Kloda LA; Shrier I; Thombs BD;

Objective: Concerns have been raised regarding the quality and completeness of abstract reporting in evidence reviews, but this had not been evaluated in meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy. Our objective was to evaluate reporting quality and completeness ...

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Author(s): Bhandari PM; Levis B; Neupane D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Thombs BD; Benedetti A;

Objective: To evaluate, across multiple sample sizes, the degree that data-driven methods result in (1) optimal cutoffs different from population optimal cutoff and (2) bias in accuracy estimates. Study design and setting: A total of 1,000 samples of sampl ...

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Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis B; Lyubenova A; Neupane D; Negeri Z; Wu Y; Sun Y; He C; Krishnan A; Vigod SN; Bhandari PM; Imran M; Rice DB; Azar M; Chiovi ...

Objective: The Maternal Mental Health in Canada, 2018/2019, survey reported that 18% of 7,085 mothers who recently gave birth reported "feelings consistent with postpartum depression" based on scor ...

Article GUID: 33104415

Author(s): Lyubenova A; Neupane D; Levis B; Wu Y; Sun Y; He C; Krishnan A; Bhandari PM; Negeri Z; Imran M; Rice DB; Azar M; Chiovitti MJ; Saadat N; Rie ...

Objectives: Estimates of depression prevalence in pregnancy and postpartum are based on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) more than on any other method. We aimed to determine if any E ...

Article GUID: 33089942

Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Ioannidis JPA; Sun Y; Negeri Z; He C; Wu Y; Krishnan A; Bhandari PM; Neupane D; Imran M; Rice DB; Riehm KE; Saadat N; ...

Objectives: Depression symptom questionnaires are not for diagnostic classification. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores =10 are nonetheless often used to estimate depression prevalence. ...

Article GUID: 32105798

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Sun Y; Krishnan A; He C; Riehm KE; Rice DB; Azar M; Yan XW; Neupane D; Bhandari PM; Imran M; Chiovitti MJ; Saadat N; Boruff J ...

Objective: Two previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) found that different diagnostic interviews classify different proportions of people as having major depression overall or ...

Article GUID: 31911325

Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis AW; Azar M; Saadat N; Riehm KE; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Rice DB; Levis B; Fedoruk C; Lyubenova A; Malo Vázquez de Lara AL ...

Objectives: We evaluated whether sample sizes in different arms of two-arm parallel group randomized controlled trials of nonregulated interventions were systematically closer in size than would pl ...

Article GUID: 31866472

Author(s): Levis B; McMillan D; Sun Y; He C; Rice DB; Krishnan A; Wu Y; Azar M; Sanchez TA; Chiovitti MJ; Bhandari PM; Neupane D; Saadat N; Riehm KE; I ...

Objectives: A previous individual participant data meta-analysis (IPDMA) identified differences in major depression classification rates between different diagnostic interviews, controlling for dep ...

Article GUID: 31568624

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten S ...

Background: Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, most posit ...

Article GUID: 31298180

Author(s): Thombs BD, Benedetti A, Kloda LA, Levis B, Azar M, Riehm KE, Saadat N, Cuijpers P, Gilbody S, Ioannidis JP, McMillan D, Patten SB, Shrier I, ...

BMJ Open. 2016 Apr 13;6(4):e011913 Authors: Thombs BD, Benedetti A, Kloda LA, Levis B, Azar M, Riehm KE, Saadat N, Cuijpers P, Gilbody S, Ioannidis JP, McMillan D, Patten SB, Shrier I, Steele RJ, ...

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Author(s): Levis B; Benedetti A; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Chiovitti MJ; Sanchez TA; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda L ...

Background: Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-structured interviews involve clinical judgement, whereas fully str ...

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