Posted by SLS on August 6, 2008, at 19:35:19
In reply to Re: SSRI vs SNRI - Efficacy Comparison Article (long), posted by bleauberry on August 6, 2008, at 19:07:01
> Too long for me to read it all.
Yeah. Sorry about that. Actually, I thought of you and your interest in milnacipran to want to include it.
> But my opinion is these metastudies are flawed in their basic design.
The funny thing is, this metastudy was meant to critique another metastudy.
> It basically comes down to what the strongest symptoms on the DSM scale each particular patient has. They need to be grouped as such, not grouped as general depressive populations based on total DSM score. That would probably show some meds with superiority over others with respect to specific symptom clusters.
That might work to enhance one's chances of responding to treatment.
I like the way you think.
- Scott
poster:SLS
thread:844518
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080805/msgs/844667.html