 |
|
Misleading Report on the Prevention of Major Depression Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer—Reply
William M. Lydiatt, MD;
William J. Burke, MD
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings. |
|
|
|
In reply
We thank Coyne for the opportunity to clarify the issues that concern him. Coyne mentions a number of the limitations of our study that we addressed in detail in our article. We concur that this small pilot study is unable to offer any statistical certainty about the outcome of this approach.
We obviously have no control over how our findings have been perceived or reported in the medical or general press. We believe that the positive (and, perhaps in Coyne's case, negative) reactions to our preliminary data are related to the unique approach that we took to the enormous problem of depression in persons with cancer of the head and neck. Depression is very common in these patients (we quoted the literature range of 15%-40%, and we observed in our small study a rate of 50% on 1 measure of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
AUTHOR INFORMATION
 CiteULike  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter
What's this?
RELATED LETTERS
Escitalopram and Problem-Solving Therapy for Prevention of Poststroke Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Robert G. Robinson, Ricardo E. Jorge, David J. Moser, Laura Acion, Ana Solodkin, Steven L. Small, Pasquale Fonzetti, Mark Hegel, and Stephan Arndt
JAMA. 2008;299(20):2391-2400.
ABSTRACT
| FULL TEXT
Misleading Report on the Prevention of Major Depression Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer
James C. Coyne
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008;134(12):1345.
EXTRACT
| FULL TEXT
RELATED ARTICLE
Preventing Depression in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Barry W. Rovner, Robin J. Casten, Mark T. Hegel, Benjamin E. Leiby, and William S. Tasman
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(8):886-892.
ABSTRACT
| FULL TEXT
|
