Use of SSRIs in "very old" depressed nursing home residents

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-89

  Trappler, Brian ^a   Cohen, Carl I ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NAUSEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031985796     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-199802000-00011     Document Type: Article

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