Escitalopram versus other anti-depressive agents for depression

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Cipriani, Andrea ^a   Pontarollo, F ^b   Signoretti, A ^b   Furukawa, T A ^b   Nakagawa, A ^b   Churchill, R ^b   McGuire, H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; MILNACIPRAN; MIRTAZAPINE; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PAROXETINE; REBOXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE; HYPERICUM EXTRACT; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR;

AGITATION; ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NAUSEA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FOLLOW UP; MICTURITION DISORDER; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; RETRACTED ARTICLE;

EID: 44949209503     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006532     Document Type: Review

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