Predictors of treatment outcome for major depression in primary care

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 731-736

  Mynors Wallis, Laurence ^a   Gath, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031011173     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291796004126     Document Type: Article

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