Andrew Charles Meltzer, Benjamin Bregman, Janice Blanchard
INTRODUCTION: Patients with abdominal pain often return multiple times despite no definitive diagnosis. Our objective was to determine if repeat emergency department (ED) use among patients with non-specific abdominal pain might be associated with a diagnosis of moderate to severe depressive disorder. METHODS: We screened 987 ED patients for major depression during weekday daytime hours from June 2011 through November 2011 using a validated depression screening tool, the PHQ-9...
May 2014: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine