Associations of Common Depression Treatment Metrics With Patient-centered Outcomes

Conclusions: Choice of depression response metric impacts observed response and remission rates, though PCOs tend to improve with depression improvement regardless of metric choice. Absolute incremental PHQ-9 score decreases are broadly associated with an increased likelihood of favorable PCO scores. Our findings support a novel PHQ-9 metric defined by an absolute score change of 8 points or greater.
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