Facing the evidence: antidepressant treatment in children and adolescents.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Antidepressant Use in Medicaid-Insured Youth: Trends, Covariates, and Future Research Needs.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020
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4. Exploring the Potential Antidepressant Mechanisms of TNFα Antagonists.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019
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6. Antidepressant use in children and adolescents: Practice touch points to guide paediatricians.Paediatrics & child health · 2011
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8. Reporting bias in medical research - a narrative review.Trials · 2010
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9. Off-label psychopharmacologic prescribing for children: history supports close clinical monitoring.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2008
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10. Treating depressed children with antidepressants: more harm than benefit?Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2008
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11. Do antidepressants precipitate youth suicide?: a nationwide pharmacoepidemiological study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2006
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12. Manufacturing consensus.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2006
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13. Research ethics committees: agents of research policy?Health research policy and systems · 2005
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14. siRNA-mediated knockdown of the serotonin transporter in the adult mouse brain.Molecular psychiatry · 2005
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15. Antidepressant use in adolescence: We're asking the wrong questions.Paediatrics & child health · 2004
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16. SSRI treatment for under-18s.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2004
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17. Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for children and adolescents.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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18. Antidepressants and adverse effects in young patients: uncovering the evidence.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2004
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Corrections and comments

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  Antidepressants and adverse effects in young patients: uncovering the evidence.2004
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  SSRI treatment for under-18s.2004

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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