How should residual symptoms be defined in depressed patients who have remitted?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 91-96

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a   Martinez, Jennifer ^a   Attiullah, Naureen ^a   Friedman, Michael ^a   Toba, Cristina ^a   Boerescu, Daniela A ^a  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICALLY USEFUL DEPRESSION OUTCOME SCALE; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUICK INVENTORY OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY; REMISSION; RESIDUAL SYMPTOM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84872798589     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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