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Article History

Received: 19 June 2018

Accepted: 25 December 2018

First Online: 19 January 2019

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: DM is co-editor-in-chief, <i>Systematic Reviews</i>. BH has received consultancy fees from Cornerstone Research Group for methodologic advice related to systematic reviews and meta-analysis and is a member of the Editorial team for <i>Systematic Reviews</i>. SG has received personal fees from UpToDate, personal fees from Eli Lilly, personal fees from Psychotherapy to go, personal fees from Compendium of pharmaceuticals over the last year, outside the submitted work. SP was a co-investigator on a grant supported jointly by the University of Calgary Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Pfizer. BT has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the effectiveness of depression screening and the accuracy of depression screening tools. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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