“…This suggests that it would be worthwhile comparing our method with the approach that identifies the major depressive cases by using the number of observed depressive symptoms only. Therefore, we used the depressive symptom recognizer developed in our previous studies ( 4 , 37 ) to recognize the nine depressive symptoms including depressed mood, loss of interest, fatigue, appetite, sleep, psychomotor, poor concentration, worthless, and suicidality from the BH and PME section of an EHR. We then applied the rule to determine whether a patient has major depression if at least five unique symptoms are recognized in their EHR.…”