Antidepressant drug use in Lombardy, Italy: A population-based study

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 169-175

  Percudani, Mauro ^a,c   Barbui, Corrado ^b   Fortino, Ida ^a   Petrovich, Lorenzo ^a  

^a Health Care Directorate   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c Regione Lombardia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Epidemiology; General practice

Indexed keywords

AMISULPRIDE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 8844271796     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2004.07.005     Document Type: Article

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