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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2012

How should primary care doctors select which antidepressants to administer?

Gerald Gartlehner, Kylie Thaler, Seth Hill, Richard A Hansen

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Vortioxetine for depression in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
    Pooled it
  2. Article
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  5. HCN Channel Targets for Novel Antidepressant Treatment.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2017
    Review
  6. Ketamine and MAG Lipase Inhibitor-Dependent Reversal of Evolving Depressive-Like Behavior During Forced Abstinence From Alcohol Drinking.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2016
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gerald GartlehnerDepartment of Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Danube University, Karl Dorrek-Strasse 30, 3500, Krems, Austria. gerald.gartlehner@donau-uni.ac.at
Kylie Thaler
Seth Hill
Richard A Hansen
Auburn University · USRTI International · USUniversität für Weiterbildung Krems · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinicians can choose among various second-generation antidepressants for treating depressive disorders, such as major depressive disorder, subsyndromal depression, or dysthymia. Systematic reviews indicate that available drugs differ in frequency of administration, costs, and the risks of some adverse events but have similar efficacy for treating major depressive disorder. Furthermore, evidence does not support the choice of one antidepressant over another based on accompanying symptoms, such anxiety, insomnia, or pain. Available studies provide little guidance for clinicians about the benefits of second-generation antidepressants for treating dysthymia and subsyndromal depression. Evidence is also unclear about the comparative risks of serious adverse events, such as suicidality, seizures, fractures, increased bleeding, or serotonin syndrome. This article summarizes the best available evidence regarding comparative benefits and harms of second-generation antidepressants for treating depressive disorders.

Indexed as

Family PracticeAntidepressive Agents, Second-GenerationDepressive DisorderEvidence-Based MedicineHumansPractice Guidelines as TopicSecondary PreventionAntidepressive Agents, Second-Generation

Identifiers

PMID22648236
OpenAlexW2093884757

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.