Comparing the quality of antidepressant pharmacotherapy in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Private Sector

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1386-1391

  Busch, Susan H ^a   Leslie, Douglas L ^a,b   Rosenheck, Robert A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; PROTRIPTYLINE; SERTRALINE; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRAZODONE; TRIMIPRAMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SEX RATIO; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 9644289365     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.12.1386     Document Type: Article

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