Treating Concurrent Chronic Low Back Pain and Depression with Low-Dose Venlafaxine: An Initial Identification of "Easy-to-Use" Clinical Predictors of Early Response

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1154-1162

  Rej, Soham ^a   Dew, Mary Amanda ^b   Karp, Jordan F ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Back Pain; Clinical Trial; Depression; Geriatrics; Predictors of Response; Primary Care; Venlafaxine

Indexed keywords

VENLAFAXINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENLAFAXINE HYDROCHLORIDE;

EID: 84940230212     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12456     Document Type: Article

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