https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2007.3.45
Elderly, depression and suicide: focusing the problem (The way the geriatrician reads the PROSPECT study)
Submitted: 3 May 2013
Accepted: 3 May 2013
Published: 3 May 2013
Accepted: 3 May 2013
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DISCUSSION The protocol of the study and results are intriguing for the geriatrician. Nevertheless some aspects must be watched at as not exactly old-oriented. Mainly the need to ameliorate operative multidimensional assessment, the missing of attention to fall-risk when prescribing psychotropic drugs and, consequently, the lack of gerontologically correct analysis of benefit/risk ratio.
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Salsi, A. (2013). Elderly, depression and suicide: focusing the problem (The way the geriatrician reads the PROSPECT study). Italian Journal of Medicine, 1(3), 45–48. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2007.3.45
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