A Brief Clinical Tool to Estimate Individual Patients' Risk of Depressive Relapse Following Remission: Proof of Concept.

CONCLUSIONS: A brief symptom scale can be used to identify patients who, despite full remission from a depressive episode, are at substantial risk of relapse within the next 6 months, and this can be used to provide a basis for personalizing the intensity of follow-up visits. PMID: 27418380 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27418380?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - July 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Judd LL, Schettler PJ, Rush AJ Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research