Real-world evidence on clinical outcomes of commonly used antidepressants in older adults initiating antidepressants for depression: a nationwide cohort study in …

K Ishtiak-Ahmed, KL Musliner… - American journal of …, 2024 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The authors investigated the clinical outcomes of commonly used antidepressants
among older adults who initiated first-time antidepressants for depression by analyzing the 1 …

Psychotropic medication use in Australia, 2007 to 2015: changes in annual incidence, prevalence and treatment exposure

J Brett, EA Karanges, B Daniels… - Australian & New …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To examine changes in annual patterns of psychotropic medication use in
Australia from 2007 to 2015. Methods: We used a 10% sample of individual-level nationwide …

The effect of concomitant treatment with SSRIs and statins: a population-based study

O Köhler, C Gasse, L Petersen… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Both preclinical studies and clinical trials have indicated that the combination of a
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and a statin may have superior antidepressant …

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent use of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications with antidepressants in older adults: a nationwide descriptive study in Denmark …

K Ishtiak-Ahmed, O Köhler-Forsberg… - General Hospital …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Concurrent polypharmacy and potentially-inappropriate-medication (PIMs) use
with antidepressants in older adults is understudied. We investigated the prevalence and …

Inflammation and depression: combined use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and NSAIDs or paracetamol and psychiatric outcomes

O Köhler, L Petersen, O Mors, C Gasse - Brain and behavior, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAID s) and paracetamol have been
shown to yield the potential of adjunctive antidepressant treatment effects to selective …

The impact of hospital-diagnosed depression or use of antidepressants on treatment initiation, adherence and HbA1c/LDL target achievement in newly diagnosed …

C Rohde, JS Knudsen, N Schmitz, SD Østergaard… - Diabetologia, 2021 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis We aimed to assess whether current antidepressant therapy or a history of
hospital-diagnosed depression affects diabetes treatment initiation, adherence, and HbA 1c …

Study design elements for rigorous quasi-experimental comparative effectiveness research

ML Maciejewski, LH Curtis… - Journal of comparative …, 2013 - becarispublishing.com
Quasi-experiments are likely to be the workhorse study design used to generate evidence
about the comparative effectiveness of alternative treatments, because of their feasibility …

Revisiting the washout period in the incident user study design: why 6–12 months may not be sufficient

AW Roberts, SB Dusetzina… - Journal of comparative …, 2015 - becarispublishing.com
Aims: The purpose of this study was to describe how washout period duration affects the
size and accuracy of retrospective incident user cohorts. Materials & methods: MarketScan …

Trends, patterns and associated user characteristics of antidepressant prescriptions in older adults: a nationwide descriptive cohort study in Denmark

K Ishtiak-Ahmed, O Köhler-Forsberg, EL Mortensen… - Drugs & Aging, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background and Objective Antidepressant use in older adults (≥ 65 years) is
understudied in large population-based samples, particularly in recent years and regarding …

A 10-year analysis of the effects of media coverage of regulatory warnings on antidepressant use in The Netherlands and UK

JF Hernandez, AK Mantel-Teeuwisse, GJMW Van Thiel… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background In 2003–2004 and 2007–2008, the regulatory banning of SSRI use in pediatrics
and young adults due to concerns regarding suicidality risk coincided with negative media …