Assessing the Adequacy of Past Antidepressant Trials: A Clinician’s Guide to the Antidepressant Treatment Response Questionnaire

Article Abstract Because this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text. Many depressed patients do not remit on antidepressant medication despite an adequate dosage and a sufficient duration of treatment. This has spawned endeavors to define treatment-resistant depression as a depressive episode that has shown insufficient response to 1 or more adequate trials of an antidepressant. What constitutes insufficient, inadequate, or partial response is still a matter of debate.