Clinical experience of the use of a pharmacological treatment algorithm for major depressive disorder in patients with advanced cancer
May 28th, 2010Author: drugsThe objective of this study was to describe the applicability and the dropout of the pharmacological treatment algorithm for major depressive disorder in patients with advanced cancer.Psychiatrists treated major depressive disorder in advanced cancer patients on the basis of the algorithm. For discussing the problems related to the algorithm, we reviewed the reasons for the non-application of the algorithm and the reasons for dropout of patients within a week of initiation of treatment.The algorithm was appli ed in 54 of 59 cases (applicability rate, 92%). The reasons for the non-application of the algorithm were as follows: the n eed to add a benzodiazepine to an antidepressant in 4 cases and the need to choose alprazolam despite the depression being moderate in severity, in order to obtain…
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