Predicting treatment response in major depressive disorder: the impact of early symptomatic improvement

PA Kudlow, DS Cha… - The Canadian Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Antidepressants (ADs) are the mainstay of treatment for major depressive
disorder (MDD). Despite their widespread usage, a consensus does not exist as to the …

Early improvement and response to antidepressant medications in adults with major depressive disorder. Meta-analysis and study of a sample with treatment-resistant …

P Olgiati, A Serretti, D Souery, M Dold, S Kasper… - Journal of affective …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Initial improvement in the first weeks of antidepressant (AD) treatment is a
useful early predictor of complete AD response. We performed a meta-analysis of AD …

Early improvement as a resilience signal predicting later remission to antidepressant treatment in patients with major depressive disorder: systematic review and meta …

S Wagner, A Engel, J Engelmann, D Herzog… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2017 - Elsevier
Early improvement of depressive symptoms during the first two weeks of antidepressant
treatment has been discussed to be a resilience signal predicting a later positive treatment …

Predicting antidepressant response by monitoring early improvement of individual symptoms of depression: individual patient data meta-analysis

YA de Vries, AM Roest, EH Bos… - The British Journal of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundImprovement in depression within the first 2 weeks of antidepressant treatment
predicts good outcomes, but non-improvers can still respond or remit, whereas improvers …

Does early improvement triggered by antidepressants predict response/remission?—Analysis of data from a naturalistic study on a large sample of inpatients with …

V Henkel, F Seemüller, M Obermeier, M Adli… - Journal of affective …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Delayed onset of efficacy of antidepressants and a high proportion of
depressed patients being poor or non-responders to antidepressants are well known clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors of remission in depression to individual and combined treatments (PReDICT): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BW Dunlop, EB Binder, JF Cubells, MM Goodman… - Trials, 2012 - Springer
Background Limited controlled data exist to guide treatment choices for clinicians caring for
patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Although many putative predictors of …

The early improvement of depressive symptoms as a potential predictor of response to antidepressants in depressive patients who failed to respond to previous …

M Bares, T Novak, M Kopecek, P Stopkova, J Kozeny… - European …, 2012 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Current studies suggest that improvement of depressive symptoms after 2
weeks of treatment could predict the subsequent response. The aim of our study was to …

Predictability of nonremitting depression after first 2 weeks of antidepressant treatment: a VAST-D trial report

PB Hicks, V Sevilimedu, GR Johnson… - … and clinical practice, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: In this secondary analysis of data from the Veterans Affairs Augmentation and
Switching Treatments for Improving Depression Outcomes (VAST-D) study, the authors …

Using patient self-reports to study heterogeneity of treatment effects in major depressive disorder

RC Kessler, HM van Loo, KJ Wardenaar… - Epidemiology and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Backgrounds. Clinicians need guidance to address the heterogeneity of treatment
responses of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). While prediction schemes …

Early improvement in the first 2 weeks as a predictor of treatment outcome in patients with major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis including 6562 patients.

A Szegedi, WT Jansen… - Journal of Clinical …, 2009 - psychiatrist.com
Objective: New evidence indicates that treatment response can be predicted with high
sensitivity after 2 weeks of treatment. Here, we assess whether early improvement with …