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Prevalence and recognition of depressive disorders in general medical inpatients
M W Hengeveld1, F A Ancion, H G Rooijmans
1Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands.
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was administered to 220 of 340 patients consecutively admitted to three general medical wards of a University Hospital, whose length of hospital stay was more than five days. At least mild symptoms of depression (BDI greater than or equal to 13) were reported by 70/220 (32%) of the patients. Alternate BDI depressive patients underwent psychiatric consultation. The psychiatric consultant established a DSM-III depressive disorder in 10/33 (30%) of these patients. Only 3/10 (30%) of the DSM-III depressive patients had been referred to the consultant psychiatrist by their physician.