Three-year outcomes of maintenance nortriptyline treatment in late-life depression: A study of two fixed plasma levels

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1177-1181

  Reynolds III, Charles F ^a   Perel, James M ^b   Frank, Ellen ^b   Cornes, Cleon ^b   Miller, Mark D ^b   Houck, Patricia R ^b   Mazumdar, Sati ^b   Stack, Jacqueline A ^b   Pollock, Bruce G ^b   Dew, Mary Amanda ^b   Kupfer, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORTRIPTYLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION; LONG TERM CARE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORTRIPTYLINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032858605     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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