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Mark Zimmerman1, Michael A Posternak, Iwona Chelminski
1Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
|February 25, 2005
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The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) is the most frequently used measure of outcome in antidepressant efficacy trials. More than a decade ago, a consensus panel recommended that remission be defined on the 17-item version of the HRSD as a cutoff
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