The use and tolerability of fluoxetine in geropsychiatric inpatients

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-16

  Orengo, Claudia A ^a   Kunik, Mark E ^a   Molinari, Victor ^a   Workman, Richard H ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SEROTONIN RELEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030048921     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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