Diagnostic accuracy of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for detecting major depression in pregnant and postnatal women: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analyses.

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Published in BMJ Open on October 20, 2015

Authors

Brett D Thombs1, Andrea Benedetti2, Lorie A Kloda3, Brooke Levis4, Kira E Riehm5, Marleine Azar4, Pim Cuijpers6, Simon Gilbody7, John P A Ioannidis8, Dean McMillan7, Scott B Patten9, Ian Shrier4, Russell J Steele10, Roy C Ziegelstein11, Marcello Tonelli12, Nicholas Mitchell13, Liane Comeau14, Joy Schinazi15, Simone Vigod16

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2: Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
3: Library, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
4: Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
5: Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
6: Department of Clinical, Neuro, Developmental Psychology, VU-University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
7: Psychological Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Health Sciences, Hull York Medical School University of York, York, UK.
8: Department of Medicine, Department of Health Research and Policy, Department of Statistics, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, USA.
9: Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
10: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
11: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
12: Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
13: Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
14: Institut national de santé publique du Québec and Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
15: Public Health Department, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
16: Department of Psychiatry, Women's College Hospital and Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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