Screening for anxiety in patients with cancer: Diagnostic accuracy of GAD-7 items considering lowered GAD-7 cut-offs

• Miriam Grapp ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: miriam.grapp@med.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliations Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, National Center for Tumour Diseases (NCT), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3837-0931

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• Till J. Bugaj,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, National Center for Tumour Diseases (NCT), University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Valentin Terhoeven,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Hans-Christoph Friederich,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, DZPG (German Centre for Mental Health–Partner Site Heidelberg/ Mannheim/ Ulm), Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ulm, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4344-8959

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• Imad Maatouk

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Section of Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychotherapy and Psychooncology, Department of Internal Medicine II, Julius-Maximilian University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8030-1182

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