Can Doctors and Nurses Recognize Depression in Patients Hospitalized With an Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Formal Screening?
Roy C. Ziegelstein, MD,
So Young Kim, BA,
David Kao, MD,
James A. Fauerbach, PhD,
Brett D. Thombs, PhD,
Una McCann, MD,
Jessica Colburn, MD and
David E. Bush, MD
From the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Figure 1. Provider assessments and patient Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores: influence of provider type. Provider assessments showed little correlation with patient BDI scores for cardiovascular nurses (A, top left), medical residents and interns (B, top right), or attending cardiologists (C, bottom).
