Quetiapine adjunct to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or venlafaxine in patients with major depression, comorbid anxiety, and residual depressive symptoms: a randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study
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Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
- Candidate categories
- Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
- Consensus categories
- none
- Domain
- Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
- Study design
- Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
- Genre
- Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
- Teacher disagreement score
- 0.057
- Threshold uncertainty score
- 1.000
- Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated·codex-gemma-dda1882f352a
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
- Teacher spread
- 0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
- Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline· verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it
Abstract
This double-blind, placebo-controlled study examined the efficacy and tolerability of quetiapine in combination with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)/venlafaxine in 58 patients with major depressive disorder, comorbid anxiety symptoms (HAM-A-14 score > or =14), and residual depressive symptoms (HAM-D-17 score > or =18, CGI-S score > or =4). Patients had received an SSRI/venlafaxine (at a predefined therapeutic dose) for > or =6 weeks. Overall, 62% (18/29) of quetiapine- and 55% (16/29) of placebo-treated patients completed the study. The mean change in HAM-D and HAM-A total scores from baseline to Week 8 (primary endpoint) was significantly greater with quetiapine (mean dose 182 mg/day) than placebo: -11.2 vs. -5.5 (P=.008) and -12.5 vs. -5.9 (P=.002), respectively. The onset of quetiapine efficacy (HAM-D/HAM-A/CGI-I) was rapid (by Week 1) and continued through to Week 8. Significant differences (P<.05) from baseline to Week 8 were observed between groups in 7/17 HAM-D (including feelings of guilt, suicide) and 6/14 HAM-A items (including tension, cardiovascular symptoms). Response (> or =50% decrease in total score) was higher for quetiapine than placebo: HAM-D, 48% vs. 28% (not significant, NS); HAM-A, 62% vs. 28% (P=.02). Remission (total score < or =7) was higher for quetiapine than placebo: HAM-D, 31% vs. 17% (NS); HAM-A, 41% vs. 17% (NS). CGI-S, CGI-I, and the Global Assessment Scale showed that quetiapine was significantly more effective than placebo. For quetiapine, adverse events (AEs) were similar to those previously observed; sedation/somnolence/lethargy was the most commonly reported. Here quetiapine was shown to be effective as augmentation of SSRI/venlafaxine therapy in patients with major depression, comorbid anxiety, and residual depressive symptoms, with no unexpected tolerability issues. Further studies are warranted.
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The record
- Venue
- Depression and Anxiety
- Topic
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- AstraZeneca (Canada)Penticton Regional Hospital
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Keywords
- QuetiapinePlaceboTolerabilityVenlafaxineInternal medicineQuetiapine FumaratePsychologyAtypical antipsychoticMajor depressive disorderAnxietyClinical Global ImpressionPsychiatryMajor depressive episodeMedicineAdverse effectAntidepressantAntipsychoticSchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)Mood
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes