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Is the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) a valid and reliable tool for measuring depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure?
Is the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) a valid and reliable tool for measuring depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure?
The PHQ-8 is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing depressive symptoms in the heart failure population.
Supports PHQ-8 for depressive symptom assessment in heart failure; leaves open broader adoption pending confirmatory studies.
The PHQ-8 demonstrated satisfactory validity and reliability; these results support its use to measure depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure.
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