An Attempt to Employ the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale as a “Lab Test” to Trigger Follow-Up in Ambulatory Oncology Clinics: Criterion Validity and Detection

摘要

We examined issues of criterion validity and detection of depression employing the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZSDS) as a “lab test” to trigger follow-up interviews of ambulatory oncology patients by oncology staff and the possibility o