Galen eCalcs - Calculator: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Description
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale is a questionnaire designed to identify depression in women who have just given birth. The scale indicates how the mother has felt in the previous week.
Calculator Search/Filter Keywords
At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching. The following calculator keywords are delivered by default for the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale:
Specialties
- Family Practice
- Internal Medicine
- Psychiatry
Systems
- Nervous
- Reproductive
Calculator Configuration Options
Preference Name | Valid Range | Description |
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Publishing | Checked / Unchecked | When checked the calculator will display for users on the front end. When unchecked, the calculator WILL NOT display for users on the front end. |
Orderable Item Override | (BLANK) / G-Edinb | “(BLANK)” indicates that the global configuration options for Orderable Item will be used. “G-Edinb” indicates that the calculator specific value will be used and can display the specific calculator name in the output. |
Show Full Questions in Annotations | True/False | True will enable the display of the full calculator input question text (rather than Q1, Q2, etc.) in the result output annotations.
False will disable the display of the full calculator input question text and display the question numbers and answers only in the result output annotations. |
Calculator Inputs
This calculator does not use any default mappings, all items require manual input.
Calculator Outputs
Output | Mapping Type | Description |
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Depression Status | Risk of Stroke | The patient's depression status according to the scale. |
Score | Risk of Stroke | The patient's score according to the scale. |
Suicidal Thoughts | Risk of Stroke | How often the patient has these thoughts. |
References
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