Experience with a Swedish version of the Geriatric Depression Scale in primary care centres

Suboptimal Duration of Antidepressant Treatments in the Older Ambulatory Population of Quebec: Association with Selected Physician Characteristics

“…These results indicate that overdiagnosis is very common in this population or that physicians, in particular GPs, do not follow recommendations for minimum treatment duration. Nevertheless, overdiagnosis would contradict earlier findings in this population, which indicate undertreatment with antidepressants in general 16,17 …”

Validity of the Brazilian version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) among primary care patients

“…Although the present work was not designed to be a prevalence study, we found that 14% of the sample had a diagnosis of a major depressive episode. This figure is within the prevalence range of major depression in aged persons in primary care: 37% in London (Evans and Katona, 1993), 13.7% in the Netherlands (Licht-Strunk et al, 2005), 13% in Sweden (Gottfries et al, 1997), 18% and 9% in American women and men, respectively (Barry et al, 1998).…”

Case managers for frail older people: a randomised controlled pilot study

“…Another striking finding was the GDS‐20 score, which suggests that the participants were at high risk of depression and some perhaps in need of treatment. The median score was 6, which is above the recommended cut‐off score for depression (33) and of the total sample, 26 people (57%) scored 6 or above. To our knowledge, the measure has not been used in such a vulnerable group of people before and thus no comparable data could be found.…”