Predictors of adequacy of depression management in the primary care setting

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1524-1528

  Joo, Jin H ^a   Solano, Francis X ^a   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a   Reynolds, Charles F ^a   Lenze, Eric J ^a,b  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 29044448297     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.56.12.1524     Document Type: Article

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