The art of clinical management in pharmacologic trials with depressed elderly patients: Lessons from the Pittsburgh study of maintenance therapies in late-life depression

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 228-234

  Miller, Mark D ^a,b   Frank, Ellen ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; META ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0032970812     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019442-199908000-00007     Document Type: Article

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