Antidepressant drug prescribing patterns to outpatients of an Italian local health authority during the years 1998 to 2008

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-215

  Deambrosis, Paola ^a   Chinellato, Alessandro ^a   Terrazzani, Gianni ^a   Pullia, Guido ^a   Giusti, Pietro ^b   Skaper, Stephen D ^b   Debetto, Patrizia ^b  

^a Local Health Authority ULSS 9   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOSULEPIN; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; REBOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

DEPRESSION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; MONOTHERAPY; OUTPATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952179504     PISSN: 02710749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JCP.0b013e3181d3cb04     Document Type: Letter

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