Posted by cecilia on March 12, 2006, at 2:51:14
In reply to Re: Many people fear MAOI's....Jaclin Hyde, posted by cecilia on March 12, 2006, at 1:49:18
I mean, quite aside from the fact that no treatment for depression has ever shown anywhere near a 99% success rate, it would be virtually impossible to have a placebo controlled trial that showed this. The only way it could be done would be to have only a 1% placebo success rate, and I've never heard of any AD study that had anywhere near that low a rate of placebo success. Most AD studies have at least a 30% placebo success rate, so even in the extremely unlikely event that a study showed a 99% success rate, if you subtracted the 30% placebo sucess you'd only get a 69% success rate. Cecilia
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