PHQ-2 Depression Screening — FHIR Questionnaire Template

Two-question depression screener with an automatic total and positive-screen flag; the short entry to the PHQ-9.

Scoring

Each answer scores 0–3. The total (0–6) is a positive screen at 3 or more.

Questions

1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
   • Not at all
   • Several days
   • More than half the days
   • Nearly every day

Calculated results

• PHQ-2 total score
• Screening result

Source and license

Source: Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams 2003, Med Care 41:1284 (PHQ-2). Codes: LOINC; form text as published at phqscreeners.com. (link)

License: Developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. No permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute. (link)

Provided to save authoring effort, not as medical advice — confirm the scale and its cut-offs for your use case.

Use it

1. Download the FHIR Questionnaire JSON, or
2. open the Builder, choose + Add → From template…, search for “PHQ-2 Depression Screening” and insert it. It arrives as one titled group with its calculations wired, and you can keep editing it.

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This material contains content from LOINC (loinc.org). LOINC is copyright © Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) Committee and is available at no cost under the LOINC license.