Treating depression in older adults: Challenges to implementing the recommendations of an expert panel

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Snowden, Mark ^a   Steinman, Lesley ^b   Frederick, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; AGING; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978933421     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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