Reducing prescribing of highly anticholinergic antidepressants for elderly people: Randomised trial of group versus individual academic detailing

British Medical Journal

Volumn 322, Issue 7287, 2001, Pages 654-657

  van Eijk, M E C ^a   Avorn, J ^b   Porsius, A J ^c   de Boer, A ^c  

^a OZ Zorgverzekeringen   (Netherlands)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DIBENZEPIN; DOSULEPIN; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NIALAMIDE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIPRAMOL; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PEER REVIEW; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, PHARMACY, CONTINUING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PEER REVIEW, HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 0035901319     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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