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To investigate diagnostic specificity and the concept of psychiatric caseness for major depression within the primary care setting.

September 1, 1998Archives of Family Medicine

False Positives, False Negatives, and the Validity of the Diagnosis of Major Depression in Primary Care

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MKMichael S. KlinkmanUniversity of Michigan

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Cross-sectional study finds misdiagnosed depression in primary care reflects an intermediate clinical spectrum, suggesting rigid psychiatric caseness models fail to capture continuous distress.

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To investigate diagnostic specificity and the concept of psychiatric caseness for major depression within the primary care setting.
Conducted a cross-sectional study across 50 family physician offices assessing 1,580 consecutive adult primary care patients.
Evaluated a weighted sample of 372 patients using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R as the criterion standard.
Categorized patients into true-positive, false-positive, false-negative, and true-negative groups to compare demographic and mental health profiles.
Physician identification of depression was strongly driven by patient familiarity, distress, vegetative symptoms, and prior mental health treatment history.
Patients in the false-positive group experienced significantly higher distress and functional impairment compared to true negatives.
False positives and false negatives showed indistinguishable clinical profiles, with both groups occupying an intermediate severity range between true positives and true negatives.

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Michael S. Klinkman (1998) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7a911214b028facf0e6ec2 https://doi.org/10.1001/archfami.7.5.451

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Cross-sectional study finds misdiagnosed depression in primary care reflects an intermediate clinical spectrum, suggesting rigid psychiatric caseness models fail to capture continuous distress.

False Positives, False Negatives, and the Validity of the Diagnosis of Major Depression in Primary Care

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False Positives, False Negatives, and the Validity of the Diagnosis of Major Depression in Primary Care

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