Data-driven methods distort optimal cutoffs and accuracy estimates of depression screening tools: a simulation study using individual participant data

Parash Mani Bhandari, Brooke Levis, Dipika Neupane, Scott B. Patten, Ian Shrier, Brett D. Thombs, Andrea Benedetti, Kuan‐Pin Su, Chen He, Danielle B. Rice, Ankur Krishnan, Yin Wu, Marleine Azar, Tatiana Sanchez, Matthew J. Chiovitti, Nazanin Saadat, Kira E. Riehm, Mahrukh Imran, Zelalem Negeri, Jill Boruff, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, John P. A. Ioannidis, Lorie A. Kloda, Roy C. Ziegelstein, Liane Comeau, Nicholas Mitchell, Marcello Tonelli, Simone N. Vigod, Franca Aceti, Rubén Alvarado, Cosme Alvarado‐Esquivel, Muideen O. Bakare, Jacqueline Barnes, Amar Bavle, Cheryl Tatano Beck, Carola Bindt, Philip Boyce, Adomas Bunevičius, Tiago Castro e Couto, Linda H. Chaudron, Humberto Corrêa, Felipe Pinheiro de Figueiredo, Valsamma Eapen, Nicolas Favez, Ethel Felice, Michelle Fernandes, Bárbara Figueiredo, Jane Fisher, Lluı̈sa Garcia-Esteve, Lisa Giardinelli, Nadine Helle, Louise M. Howard, Dina Sami Khalifa, Jane Kohlhoff, Zoltán Kozinszky, Laima Kusminskas, Lorenzo Lelli, Angeliki Leonardou, Michael Maes, Valentina Meuti, Sandra Nakić Radoš, Purificación Navarro García, Daisuke Nishi, Daniel Okitundu Luwa E‐Andjafono, Susan Pawlby, Chantal Quispel, Emma Robertson‐Blackmore, Tamsen Rochat, Heather Rowe, Debbie Sharp, Bonnie W.M. Siu, Alkistis Skalkidou, Alan Stein, Robert C. Stewart, Kuan‐Pin Su, Inger Sundström Poromaa, Meri Tadinac, S. Darius Tandon, Iva Tendais, Pavaani Thiagayson, Annamária Töreki, A. Torres, Thach Tran, Kylee Trevillion, Katherine Turner, Johann M. Vega‐Dienstmaier, Karen Wynter, Kimberly A. Yonkers (2021). Data-driven methods distort optimal cutoffs and accuracy estimates of depression screening tools: a simulation study using individual participant data. , 137, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.031.