Diagnostic schemes that show an intermediate ability to identify persistent major depression are the inclusive and etiologic
approaches, which show quite similar interactions with time (F=79.0 and F=68.3, respectively). Once again, however, when we examine the number of major depressions identified by the inclusive approach (the most sensitive method) but missed by the exclusiveetiologic scheme, 59% of missed patients on whom we had follow-up data (N=23 of 39) still experienced significant symptoms (five or more criterion symptoms out of 13) 9 weeks after hospital discharge. Thus, the exclusiveetiologic approach, the most conservative method for diagnosing major depression, results in a relatively large
number of false negative diagnoses for depressions that persist many weeks after hospital discharge.
Diagnostic schemes that show an intermediate ability to identify persistent major depression are the inclusive and etiologicapproaches, which show quite similar interactions with time (F=79.0 and F=68.3, respectively). Once again, however, when we examine the number of major depressions identified by the inclusive approach (the most sensitive method) but missed by the exclusiveetiologic scheme, 59% of missed patients on whom we had follow-up data (N=23 of 39) still experienced significant symptoms (five or more criterion symptoms out of 13) 9 weeks after hospital discharge. Thus, the exclusiveetiologic approach, the most conservative method for diagnosing major depression, results in a relatively largenumber of false negative diagnoses for depressions that persist many weeks after hospital discharge.
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