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. 2017 May;62(5):351-352.
doi: 10.1177/0706743717700877.

Some of the CANMAT Recommendations for the Pharmacological Treatment of Late-life Depression Are Not Congruent with Available Evidence or Expert Opinion

Daniel Blumberger, David Conn, John S Kennedy, Benoit H Mulsant, Bruce G Pollock, Kiran Rabheru, Mark J Rapoport, Dallas Seitz

Some of the CANMAT Recommendations for the Pharmacological Treatment of Late-life Depression Are Not Congruent with Available Evidence or Expert Opinion

Daniel Blumberger et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2017 May.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Benoit H. Mulsant reports non-financial support outside the submitted work from Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer. Dr. Mulsant is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and a Board Member, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto. Both institutions have multiple financial relationships with pharmaceutical and biomedical companies. John S. Kennedy is a former employee and current stockholder of Eli Lilly.

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