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"Selecting the Right Antidepressants
Bruce Jancin, Denver Bureau
[Clinical Psychiatry News 26(9):1,2, 1998. (c) 1998 International
Medical News Group.]
SANTA FE, N.M. -- Most physicians, including psychiatrists, have no idea how to match specific antidepressant medications to individual patients.
This is the consensus of a Texas group that set out to clear up the treatment confusion with an algorithm that is drawing national interest.
"The state of the art is we have close to 20 medications and not a clue -- in my view -- as to how to match them to the patient," said Dr. A. John Rush, chair of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project's consensus conference panel on drug treatment of major depression. [...]"