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Volume 13, Issue 4 , Pages 326-331 , May 2012

A Review of the Effectiveness of Antidepressant Medications for Depressed Nursing Home Residents

Richard D. Boyce, PhD
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Geriatric Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Geroinformatics Research and Training Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Address correspondence to Richard D. Boyce, PhD, Parkvale Building, Suite M-183, 200 Meyran Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
Joseph T. Hanlon, PharmD, MS
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Geriatric Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Geroinformatics Research and Training Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, and Center (GRECC) and The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Jordan F. Karp, MD
- Department of Psychiatry and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
John Kloke, PhD
- Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ahlam Saleh, MD, MLS
- Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Steven M. Handler, MD, PhD
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Geriatric Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Geroinformatics Research and Training Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
- Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, and Center (GRECC) and The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA

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The authors acknowledge no conflicts of interest. J.K. has been an advisor for Eli Lilly and Theravance but not within the last 18 months. He is also a stock owner of Corcept.

The corresponding author (R.D.B.) was funded by grant K12HS019461 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Additional grant support for the co-authors was provided by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant (R01-HS017695 and 1R01HS018721-01), National Institute on Aging grants (K07AG033174, P30AG024827, T32 AG021885, R01AG034056, R56AG027017, 3U01 AG012553, and AG033575), a National Institute of Mental Health grant (R34 MH082682), a National Institute of Nursing Research grant (R01 NR010135), National Center for Research resources grants (KL2 RR024154, 3 UL1 R024153-04S4), and a VA Health Services Research grant (IIR-06-062). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or any of the other funding sources.