PHQ-9 scores are based on patient self-rating of physical and emotional symptoms over the past two weeks including low mood, fatigue, sleep problems, inability to concentrate, ...

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, or PHQ-2 to 9, is a widely used screening tool for depression, and in the context of nursing homes and PDPM it takes on even greater importance.

The PHQ-9 became a means for time-crunched primary care doctors, under pressure to see more and more patients in shorter appointments, to dole out prescriptions with barely a conversation.

The average treatment response across this large sample of clinics was ... Depression response is a change of 50 percent or more from the patient’s initial Patient Health Questionnaire-9 ...

At that time, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a set of nine questions that help clinicians identify signs and symptoms of depression, will transition to the PHQ-2 to 9.

Higher PHQ-9 scores, which indicate more severe disease, were associated with higher all-cause healthcare costs and specialty behavioral healthcare costs within the TRD and MDD-only groups, but ...

In general, PHQ-9 scores range from 0 to 27, with scores of 5–9 considered mild depression, 10–14 moderate depression, 15–19 moderately severe depression, and equal to or greater than 20 ...

Their PHQ-9 score was higher by an average of 0.46 points. Even more concerning was an association found in overweight people in the nutrient-restriction group.