Course of Antidepressant Treatment, Drug Type, and Prescriber's Specialty
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in Psychiatric Services
- Vol. 49 (9) , 1180-1186
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.9.1180
Abstract
The study examined whether the relationship between the course of antidepressant treatment and the type of prescriber-psychiatrist or nonpsychiatrist-varied by whether a tricyclic antidepressant or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) was prescribed.Keywords
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