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A major depression prognosis calculator based on episode duration

Scott B Patten

Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences & Department of Psychiatry. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006, 2:13doi:10.1186/1745-0179-2-13

Published: 14 June 2006

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Additional File 1:

This is an Excel® spreadsheet with an embedded macro for calculating the probability of recovery during a specified interval of time using estimates from the models presented in this paper. You may need to alter the security settings in Excel® in order to use the calculator. If the program is set to high security, it may not allow macros to run. To change these settings, click Tools then Options then Macro Security.

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Additional File 2:

This is an "AVI" video file presenting an animation of the model described in the paper. The animation illustrates that even though most new episodes are brief, an accumulation of longer episodes in the prevalence pool is predicted by the model.

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