Posted by SLS on July 16, 2006, at 19:36:44
In reply to Re: couldn't have said it better myself, posted by linkadge on July 16, 2006, at 19:29:46
> That study does support your claim, but it is numberless, and difficult to quantify the exact magnitude of discussed claim.
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> It may be clear that severe depression responds more poorly to placebo but it would be nice to know exactly how significantly the ratio of placebo to active drug changes with increasing sevarity of depression.
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> I am looking for more studies on this topic.
In the good old days, standard response (50% reduction in depression score) was almost invariably:drug = 70%
placebo = 30%
- Scott
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