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BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article Open Access The self-reported Montgomery-Åsberg depression rating scale is a useful evaluative tool in major depressive disorder 1 2 Bruno Fantino* and Nicholas Moore* 1 2 Address: ADIM-AGORAS, 112, cours Albert Thomas, 69008 LYON, France and Département de Pharmacologie, CHU de Bordeaux – Université Victor Segalen, Case 36, 33076 Bordeaux, France Email: Bruno Fantino* - bruno.fantino@wanadoo.fr; Nicholas Moore* - nicholas.moore@pharmaco.u-bordeaux2.fr * Corresponding authors Published: 27 May 2009 Received: 29 April 2008 Accepted: 27 May 2009 BMC Psychiatry 2009, 9:26 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-9-26 This article is available from: /1471-244X/9/26 © 2009 Fantino and Moore; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The use of Patient-reported Outcomes (PROs) as secondary endpoints in the development of new antidepressants has grown in recent years. The objective of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the 9-item, patient-administered version of the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADR