Adequacy of antidepressant treatment by psychiatric residents: The antidepressant treatment history form as a possible assessment tool

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-288

  Dew, Rachel Elizabeth ^a,c   Kramer, Stephen I ^b   McCall, W Vaughn ^b  

^a North Carolina Baptist Hospital   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSTHYMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; COST OF ILLNESS; DRUG THERAPY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHIATRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG THERAPY; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PSYCHIATRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33644808790     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.29.3.283     Document Type: Article

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