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Editorial

. 2018 Mar 9:360:k1073.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.k1073.

Effectiveness of antidepressants

James McCormack¹, Christina Korownyk²

Affiliations

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¹ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada james.mccormack@ubc.ca.
² Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

PMID: 29523598
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k1073

Editorial

Effectiveness of antidepressants

James McCormack et al. BMJ. 2018.

. 2018 Mar 9:360:k1073.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.k1073.

Authors

James McCormack¹, Christina Korownyk²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada james.mccormack@ubc.ca.
² Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

PMID: 29523598
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k1073

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Cipriani A, Furukawa TA, Salanti G, Chaimani A, Atkinson LZ, Ogawa Y, Leucht S, Ruhe HG, Turner EH, Higgins JPT, Egger M, Takeshima N, Hayasaka Y, Imai H, Shinohara K, Tajika A, Ioannidis JPA, Geddes JR. Cipriani A, et al. Lancet. 2018 Apr 7;391(10128):1357-1366. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32802-7. Epub 2018 Feb 21. Lancet. 2018. PMID: 29477251 Free PMC article.

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