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Evid Based Mental Health 4:124 doi:10.1136/ebmh.4.4.124
  • Quality Improvement

Group and individual academic detailing for clinicians influenced prescribing of antidepressants for the elderly

Individual or group educational visits v no visits for influencing incident prescription rates for elderly people with depression at 8 months‡

Antidepressant type Comparison Adjusted rate ratio reduction (95% CI)
Highly anticholinergic Individual v no visits 26% (−4 to 48)§
Group v no visits 45% (8 to 67)
Adjusted rate ratio increase (CI)
‡Rate ratios adjusted for sex and baseline rates of incident prescriptions. §Not statistically significant.
Less anticholinergic Individual v no visits 40% (6 to 83)
Group v no visits 29% (−7 to 79)§

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