Neuromodulation for major depressive disorder: innovative measures to capture efficacy and outcomes.
Journal
The lancet. Psychiatry
ISSN: 2215-0374
Titre abrégé: Lancet Psychiatry
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101638123
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2020
12 2020
Historique:
received:
08
01
2020
revised:
02
04
2020
accepted:
14
04
2020
pubmed:
2
11
2020
medline:
14
1
2021
entrez:
1
11
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Major depressive disorder is a common and debilitating disorder. Although most patients with this disorder benefit from established treatments, a subset of patients have symptoms that remain treatment resistant. Novel treatment approaches, such as deep brain stimulation, are urgently needed for patients with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder. These novel treatments are currently being tested in clinical trials in which success hinges on how accurately and comprehensively the primary outcome measure captures the treatment effect. In this Personal View, we argue that current measures used to assess outcomes in neurosurgical trials of major depressive disorder might be missing clinically important treatment effects. A crucial problem of continuing to use suboptimal outcome measures is that true signals of efficacy might be missed, thereby disqualifying potentially effective treatments. We argue that a re-evaluation of how outcomes are measured in these trials is much overdue and describe several novel approaches that attempt to better capture meaningful change.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33129374
pii: S2215-0366(20)30187-5
doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30187-5
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1075-1080Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : RF1 MH117805
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
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