Antidepressant treatment before hospitalization for major depression: Often prescribed, often undertitrated

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Ferreres, F ^a   Bertschy, G ^a   Baumann, P ^a  

^a Hopital de Cery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Compliance; Daily dose; Depression; General practitioners; Psychiatrists

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DIBENZEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; MIANSERIN; MOCLOBEMIDE; OPIPRAMOL; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030893077     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/phrs.1996.0121     Document Type: Article

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