Symptom Severity and Guideline-Based Treatment Recommendations for Depressed Patients: Implications of DSM-5’s Potential Recommendation of the PHQ-9 as the Measure of Choice for Depression Severity

opment of the PHQ-9, Kroenke et al. [4] reocmmnedde cutoff scores corresponding to mild, moderate, moder-ately severe and severe levels of depression severity, and the validity of these cutoffs was supported by demon-strating differences in health-related quality of life be-tween adjacent severity categories. In previewing the potential changes in the upcoming fifth edition of...