Practical considerations for the treatment of depression in elderly and very elderly long-term care patients

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 20, 1999, Pages 30-33

  Salzman, Carl ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; AGITATION; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LIVER CLEARANCE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROTOXICITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BUPROPION; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 0032833530     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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