The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a summary of depression screening recommendations in 2002 that included the following summary statements:

• The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening adults for depression in clinical practices that have systems in place to assure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and followup.
• The USPSTF concludes the evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against routine screening of children or adolescents for depression.

Due to copyright limitations, we cannot reproduce the entire findings here, but expanded recommendations are available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspsdepr.htm

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