Depression

Patient Health Questionnaire - 9

Depression symptom screening and outcome monitoring.

How Lirena uses PHQ-9

Lirena presents PHQ-9 as a structured assessment workflow with assignment, completion, deterministic scoring support, and clinician-reviewed output. The public page describes metadata and operational use only; it does not reproduce protected item wording beyond approved source material.

  • 9 item workflow
  • Patient response pathway
  • Score range 0-27

Clinical boundary

Includes item-level suicide-risk review. Scores are screening support, not a diagnosis.

Assessment scores support clinical review, formulation, documentation, and follow-up. They do not diagnose a condition by themselves.

Governance notes

Clinics should verify official wording, licences, scoring manuals, local policy, and clinician competency before using an instrument in production.

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