Impact of Physical Illness on Quality of Life and Antidepressant Response in Geriatric Major Depression

OBJECTIVE: Because physical illness may influence quality of life, we assessed its impact on functional status and treatment outcome in older depressed patients who participated in a clinical trial, which showed a significantly higher remission rate for fluoxetine over placebo (31.6% vs 18.6%, P < .001).

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