Are study dropouts different from completers?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 668-670

  Tedlow, Joyce Root ^a   Fava, Maurizio ^a   Uebelacker, Lisa A ^a   Alpert, Jonathan E ^a   Nierenberg, Andrew A ^a   Rosenbaum, Jerrold F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

completers; depression; differences; dropouts; fluoxetine

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARCISSISM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY;

EID: 0030272972     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(96)00204-1     Document Type: Article

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