Clinical Corner: Depression
News
- Desipramine hydrochloride - Extreme caution should be used when this drug is given to patients who have a family history of sudden death, cardiac dysrhythmias, and cardiac conduction disturbances. Click here for details.
Articles
AMDA Tackles Mental Health Education (Caring for the Ages, October 2009)
Common Signs Point to Depression (Miriam Tucker, Caring for the Ages, January 2009)
Depression in Long-Term Care (Mugdha Thakur, Dan G. Blazer, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, February 2008)
Depression and Mortality in Elders Referred for Geriatric Psychiatry Consultation , 10 May 2007 (Donald R. Royall, Jason E. Schillerstrom, Paul K. Piper, Laura K. Chiodo, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association , June 2007)
Apathy: A Common Psychiatric Syndrome in the Elderly (MShinya Ishii, Nancy Weintraub, James R. Mervis,Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, July 2009)
Managing Depression in Long-Term Care (Caring for the Ages, June 2002)
Tools & Resources
Clinical Practice Guidelines News: Depression
Reference Bibliography
Products & Publications
Depression (AMDA Clinical Practice Guideline, Revised in 2011)
Pharmacotherapy Companion to Depression (AMDA Clinical Practice Guideline published 1999)
Tool Kit on the Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Depression
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