title: Diagnosing depression in the hospitalized patient with chronic medical illness.
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: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001066:Appetite; D001835:Body Weight; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011595:Psychomotor Agitation / Q000523:psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology