## Objectives: To determine the response to treatment of different subgroups within a sample of physically ill elderly depressed patients. ## Design: Acute geriatric medical inpatients with depression, randomly assigned to an 8-week double-blind placebo-controlled trial of fluoxetine. ## Main ou
The effectiveness of the treatment of depression in the physically ill elderly
โ Scribed by Draper, B. M.
- Book ID
- 126729554
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Group
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1360-7863
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