The STAR*D trial: The 300 lb gorilla is in the room, but does it block all the light?

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 97-99

  Hatcher, Simon ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM;

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DRUG COMBINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CITALOPRAM; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 54549090074     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebmh.11.4.97     Document Type: Short Survey

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