Primary care doctors should not screen their patients for depression

Affiliations

• ¹ a Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research , Jewish General Hospital , Montréal , Canada.
• ² b Department of Psychiatry , McGill University , Montréal , Canada.
• ³ c Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health , McGill University , Montréal , Canada.
• ⁴ d Department of Medicine , McGill University , Montréal , Canada.
• ⁵ e Department of Counselling and Educational Psychology , McGill University , Montréal , Canada.
• ⁶ f Department of Psychology , McGill University , Montréal , Canada.
• ⁷ g Department of Medicine , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore , Maryland , USA.