Prescribing less than recommended doses may be acceptable for geriatric patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-

  Tan, Robert S ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032043706     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb02482.x     Document Type: Letter

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