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Depression in newly admitted nursing home residents is a frequently overlooked area of nursing concern. Educating staff to systematically use a standardized depression assessment protocol with all newly admitted residents would facilitate efforts to enhance the quality of residents' lives by identifying depression so that prompt treatment is possible. Other previously admitted residents who appear to be particularly vulnerable to depression would also benefit from this assessment. The use of this protocol for the assessment of depression offers the possibility of providing more accurate and more comprehensive information regarding mood states than that currently being documented in the Minimum Data Set.
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