Risk of suicidality in clinical trials of antidepressants in adults: Analysis of proprietary data submitted to US Food and Drug Administration

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7718, 2009, Pages 431-434

  Stone, Marc ^a   Laughren, Thomas ^a   Jones, M Lisa ^a   Levenson, Mark ^a   Holland, P Chris ^a   Hughes, Alice ^a   Hammad, Tarek A ^a   Temple, Robert ^a   Rochester, George ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOSULEPIN; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; VENLAFAXINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DRUG INDICATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449098588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b2880     Document Type: Article

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