Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression with Medical In-Patients
- 29 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 113 (494) , 83-88
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.113.494.83
Abstract
This report evaluates the use of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS) (5) in a general medical in-patient population; it is one part of a comprehensive study of depression in these patients (10, 11). The Hamilton Rating Scale was designed to measure the severity of depression in patients already diagnosed as having depressive illness. Hamilton (5) states, “the scale quantifies the results of an interview and is of practical value in assessing the results of treatment.” Recently, the HRS has been used for measuring psychiatric patients' responses to antidepressant medications (7, 9, 12), but there are no reports of its use with medical patients.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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