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. 2017 Mar 29;41(2):238–244. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2017.1294301

Table 1.

PHQ-2 operating characteristics in medical samples.

Population Authors/year PHQ-2 Cutoff score PHQ-2 Operating characteristics PHQ-9 Cutoff score PHQ-9 Operating characteristics
Primary Care Kroenke et al. (2003)17 ≥3 Sensitivity = 83%; Specificity = 90%; PPV = 38.4%; AUC = 0.93 Not reported AUC = 0.95
Corson et al. (2004)19 ≥3 Sensitivity = 97%; Specificity = 91%; AUC = 0.94 Not reported Not reported
Chen et al. (2009)20 ≥3 Sensitivity = 84%; Specificity = 90%; AUC = 0.92 ≥9 Sensitivity = 86%; Specificity = 85%; AUC = 0.92
Osorio et al. (2009)21 ≥3 Sensitivity = 97%; Specificity = 88%; PPV = 81%; NPV = 98%; AUC = 0.97 ≥10 Sensitivity = 100%; Specificity = 98%; PPV = 97%; NPV = 100%; AUC = 0.998
Arroll et al. (2009)22 ≥2 Sensitivity = 86%; Specificity = 78% ≥10 Sensitivity = 74%; Specificity = 91%;
Phelan et al. (2010)23 ≥2 Sensitivity = 75%; Specificity = 67%; AUC = 0.81 ≥9 Sensitivity = 88%; Specificity = 80%; AUC = 0.87
Zuithoff et al. (2010)24 ≥2 Sensitivity = 81%; Specificity = 76%; PPV = 34%; NPV = 96%; AUC = 0.83 ≥6 Sensitivity = 82%; Specificity = 82%; PPV = 41%; NPV = 97%; AUC = 0.87
Liu et al. (2011)25 ≥2 Sensitivity = 88%; Specificity = 82%; AUC = 0.9 ≥10 Sensitivity = 86%; Specificity = 93.9%; AUC = 0.96
Inagaki et al. (2013)26 ≥2 Sensitivity = 77%; Specificity = 95%; PPV = 54%; NPV = 98%; AUC = 0.95 ≥4 Sensitivity = 86%; Specificity = 85%; PPV = 32%; NPV = 99%; AUC = 0.93
Thapar et al. (2014)27 ≥3 Sensitivity = 72.1%; Specificity = 82.1%; PPV = 53.5%; NPV = 91.2%; AUC = 0.87 ≥11 Sensitivity = 83.6%; Specificity = 83%; PPV = 58.4%; NPV = 94.7%; AUC = 0.9
Bhana et al. (2015)28 ≥2 Sensitivity = 60%; Specificity = 84%; AUC = 0.76 ≥9 Sensitivity = 49%; Specificity = 94%; AUC = 0.85
Carey et al. (2015)29 ≥3 Sensitivity = 91%; Specificity = 78%; PPV = 41%; NPV = 98%; AUC = 0.92 ≥10 Not reported
Hanlon et al. (2015)30 ≥1 Sensitivity = 83.3%; Specificity = 60.8%; PPV = 11.7%; NPV = 98.3%; AUC = 0.78 ≥5 Sensitivity = 83.3%; Specificity = 74.7%; PPV = 17.1%; NPV = 98.6%; AUC = 0.85
Suzuki et al. (2015)31 ≥3 Sensitivity = 76%; Specificity = 82%; Overall Accuracy = 81%; PPV = 27%; NPV = 98%; AUC =.845 ≥11 Sensitivity = 76%; Specificity = 81%; Overall Accuracy = 81%; PPV = 26%; NPV = 97%; AUC = 0.88
Stroke de Man-van Ginkel, Gooskens, et al. (2012)32 ≥2 Sensitivity = 100%; Specificity = 77%; PPV = 38%; NPV = 100% ≥10 Sensitivity = 100%; Specificity = 86%; PPV = 50%; NPV = 100%
de Man-van Ginkel, Hafsteinsdottir, et al. (2012)33 ≥2 Sensitivity = 75%; Specificity = 76%; AUC = 0.82 ≥10 Sensitivity = 80%; Specificity = 78%; AUC = 0.87
Turner et al. (2012)34 ≥1 Sensitivity = 77%; Specificity = 63%; AUC = 0.82 ≥6 Sensitivity = 85%; Specificity = 63%; AUC = 0.82
Cardiovascular McManus et al. (2005)35 ≥3 Sensitivity = 39%; Specificity = 92%; AUC = 0.84 ≥10 Sensitivity = 54%; Specificity = 90%; AUC = 0.86
Thombs et al. (2008)36 ≥2 Sensitivity = 82%; Specificity = 79%; PPV = 52%; NPV = 94%; AUC = 0.84 ≥6 Sensitivity = 83%; Specificity = 76%; PPV = 50%; NPV = 94%; AUC = 0.86
Wang et al. (2015)37 ≥3 Sensitivity = 85.7%; Specificity = 69.2%; PPV = 57.1%; NPV = 93.6%; AUC = 0.806 ≥10 Sensitivity = 87.1%; Specificity = 83.5%; PPV = 58.7%; NPV = 95.6%; AUC = 0.877
HIV/AIDS Monahan et al. (2008)38 ≥3 Sensitivity = 91%; Specificity = 77%; PPV = 36.9; AUC = 0.91 Not reported Not reported
Cognitive Impairment Boyle et al. (2011)39 ≥3 Sensitivity = 78%; Specificity = 71%; AUC = 0.81 ≥10 Sensitivity = 89%; Specificity = 71%; AUC = 0.85
Epilepsy Fiest et al. (2014)40 ≥2 Sensitivity = 42.3%; Specificity = 87.3%; PPV = 35.5%; NPV = 90.1%; AUC = 0.75 ≥9 Sensitivity = 82.6%; Specificity = 82.2%; PPV = 42.2%; NPC = 96.8%; AUC = 0.88
Migraine Seo et al. (2015)41 ≥2 Sensitivity = 66.7%; Specificity = 90.3%; PPV = 74.3%; NPV = 86.6%; AUC = 0.785 ≥7 Sensitivity = 79.5%; Specificity = 81.7%; PPV = 64.6%; NPV = 90.5%; AUC = 0.806
Multiple Sclerosis Amtmann et al. (2015)42 ≥2 Sensitivity = 70.8%; Specificity = 81% ≥10 Sensitivity = 93.8%; Specificity = 61.2%
Patten et al. (2015)43 ≥3 Sensitivity = 80%; Specificity = 93%; PPV = 64%; NPV = 36%; AUC = 0.943 ≥11 Sensitivity = 95%; Specificity = 88.3%; PPV = 55.9%; NPV = 44.1%; AUC = 0.952