Depression in nursing homes: Ensuring adequate treatment

CNS Drugs

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 627-640

  Llewellyn Jones, Robert H ^a   Snowdon, John ^b  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM; MIRTAZAPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FALLING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MELANCHOLIA; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

DEPRESSION; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34547182566     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00023210-200721080-00002     Document Type: Review

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