Mulsant Benoit H, Blumberger Daniel M, Ismail Zahinoor, Rabheru Kiran, Rapoport Mark J
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1001 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada.
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada; Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1001 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4, Canada.
Clin Geriatr Med. 2014 Aug;30(3):517-34. doi: 10.1016/j.cger.2014.05.002. Epub 2014 Jun 14.
The broadening use of antidepressants among older Americans has not been associated with a notable decrease in the burden of geriatric depression. This article, based on a selective review of the literature, explores several explanations for this paradox. The authors propose that the effectiveness of antidepressants depends in large part on the way they are used. Evidence supports that antidepressant pharmacotherapy leads to better outcomes when guided by a treatment algorithm as opposed to attempting to individualize treatment. Several published guidelines and pharmacotherapy algorithms developed for the treatment of geriatric depression are reviewed, and an updated algorithm proposed.
在美国老年人中,抗抑郁药使用范围的扩大与老年抑郁症负担的显著降低并无关联。本文基于对文献的选择性回顾,探讨了这一矛盾现象的几种解释。作者提出,抗抑郁药的有效性在很大程度上取决于其使用方式。有证据支持,与试图进行个体化治疗相比,在治疗算法的指导下进行抗抑郁药物治疗会带来更好的效果。本文回顾了为治疗老年抑郁症而制定的若干已发表指南和药物治疗算法,并提出了一种更新的算法。