A computer algorithm for calculating the adequacy of antidepressant treatment in unipolar and bipolar depression

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 825-833

  Oquendo, Maria A ^b   Baca Garcia, Enrique ^c   Kartachov, Alexei ^a   Khait, Vadim ^c   Campbell, Carl E ^c   Richards, Monique ^c   Sackeim, Harold A ^c   Prudic, Joan ^c   Mann, J John ^c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0042306140     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.v64n0714     Document Type: Article

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