The strategy used to screen for depression in adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) is an important consideration for health care providers, as a new study suggests that nurse-administered and self-administered screening techniques can show different results. The results from the study, conducted by a team from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, were presented during the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition. SCD, which is an inherited blood disorder, affects around 100,000 people in the United States. It was important to conduct the research on depression ...
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