Population
More than 1.4 million Ontario residents aged 65 years or older
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
1993 to 1997
Authors
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Rising SSRI use coincided with higher antidepressant prescriptions and costs in elderly; leaves open net clinical benefit.
The introduction of SSRIs led to a substantial increase in both the utilization and financial cost of antidepressants among the elderly between 1993 and 1997.
Mamdani et al. (2000) studied this question.