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Depression but Not Anxiety Is a Significant Predictor of Physicians’ Assessments of Medical Status in Physically Ill Patients

Thomas Meyer, Heike Klemme, Christoph S. Herrmann

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics · 2000 · 34 citations · 44 references

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Abstract

Our data demonstrate that internists' ratings of severity of illness and functional impairment, but not prognosis, are associated with HADS depression scores, whereas there is no such association with self-rated anxiety.

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