Ketamine for the treatment of depression in patients receiving hospice care: a retrospective medical record review of thirty-one cases.

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Depression is prevalent in patients receiving hospice care. Standard antidepressant medications do not work rapidly enough in this setting. Evidence suggests that ketamine rapidly treats treatment refractory depression in the general population. Ketamine׳s role for treating depression in the hospice population warrants further study.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Psychosomatics

Title: Psychosomatics

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1545-7206

ISSN (Print): 0033-3182

Publication date (Electronic): January 27 2015

Volume: 56

Issue: 4

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[1 ] Department of Psychiatry and Moores Cancer Center, University of California, La Jolla, CA (AI, RAN, JMH, SAI); San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA (AI).

[2 ] Department of Internal Medicine and Inpatient Palliative Medicine Service, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO (KM).

[3 ] Department of Psychiatry and Moores Cancer Center, University of California, La Jolla, CA (AI, RAN, JMH, SAI).

[4 ] Division of Biostatistics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (TZ).

[5 ] Department of Statistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (BI).

[6 ] Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA (NF).

[7 ] Department of Psychiatry and Moores Cancer Center, University of California, La Jolla, CA (AI, RAN, JMH, SAI). Electronic address: sirwin@ucsd.edu.

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Publisher Item ID: S0033-3182(14)00079-6 Mid ID: NIHMS603416

DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2014.05.005

PMC ID: 4308579

PubMed ID: 25616995

SO-VID: 0d2d7587-5e8b-4119-b9f7-fde62378dfec

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