Abstract
Symptoms useful in diagnosing depression in the medically ill are reviewed. The DSM-III criteria seem best suited for this purpose; of these, the most useful discriminators among patients with concomitant depression and medical illness are the affective/cognitive symptoms. Less useful are vegetative/somatic symptoms, which do, however, support the diagnosis when they are severe, disproportionate to the medical illness, and temporally related to affective/cognitive symptoms.
MeSH terms
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Adjustment Disorders / diagnosis
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Adjustment Disorders / psychology
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Appetite
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Body Weight
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Chronic Disease / psychology*
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Depression / psychology
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Depressive Disorder / diagnosis*
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Depressive Disorder / psychology
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Hospitalization*
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Humans
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Manuals as Topic
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Neurocognitive Disorders / diagnosis
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Neurocognitive Disorders / psychology
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Psychomotor Agitation / psychology
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Self Concept
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Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / psychology
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Somatoform Disorders / psychology