… degree of depression. Since we used a naturalistic study design, the data may be
considered as a replication of previous results drawn from RCTs in a naturalistic …

… improvement (EI) after 1 and 2 weeks of treatment in patients … This naturalistic study was
conducted as a part of a research … might be partially caused by side effects of antidepressants (…

… an effect is induced, but not in the time characteristics of recovery, because the mean time
to … was only applied in one single study and the sample size of this study was rather small. …

… in analyses if they (a) were diagnosed with major depressive disorder … In our sample, those
treated with NDRI were more likely … lack of early improvement was less able to predict lack of …

… We included naturalistic studies in which patients and … In another large study on inpatients
treated with various AD … This caused a decrease in remission rate, about 4.3% in the …

… from both studies); the broader patient selection may have caused an underestimation of the
… predict response/remission? Analysis of data from a naturalistic study on a large sample of …

… Furthermore, substance/medication-induced depressive … symptom severity and
response/remission rates. Furthermore, … combinations for improving antidepressant efficacy …

… functioning in patients who had reached early response … that early improvement, as early
as 2 weeks into antidepressant … patients started taking the effective dose of antidepressant …

… Hence, the aim of this study was to analyze the predictive value of early … Obermeier et
al., “Does early improvement triggered by antidepressants predict response/remission?—…

… randomized clinical trials, meta-analyses and naturalistic studies … have shown that early
improvement can predict sustained … A naturalistic, prospective study of 795 hospitalized patients …