Doctors Should Screen All Adults For Depression, Task Force Urges
New guidance from a federal panel urges that all adults, specifically pregnant women and new mothers, should be screened for depression as a routine part of health care. The recommendation, expected to galvanize many more health providers to provide screening, comes in the wake of new evidence that maternal mental illness is more common than previously thought.
Los Angeles Times:
Federal Panel Recommends General Physicians Screen All Adults For Depression
Modern Healthcare:
Task Force Urges Depression Screening For All U.S. Adults
USA Today:
Task Force: Doctors Should Screen All Adults For Depression
The Associated Press:
Task Force Urges Doctors To Screen All Adults For Depression
NPR:
Depression Screening Recommended For All Pregnant Women, New Mothers