Suicide Rates and Antidepressant Prescribing: A Casual or Causal Relationship?

Bernhard Baune; Phillipa Hay

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030220

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Suicide Rates and Antidepressant Prescribing: A Casual or Causal Relationship?

Bernhard Baune,
Phillipa Hay

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: phillipa.hay@jcu.edu.au
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Suicide Rates and Antidepressant Prescribing: A Casual or Causal Relationship?

Bernhard Baune,
Phillipa Hay

Published: June 13, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030220

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No conclusion possible

Posted by plosmedicine on 30 Mar 2009 at 23:55 GMT

Author: Richard Hockey
E-mail: rhockey@optusnet.com.au
Submitted Date: June 15, 2006
Published Date: June 15, 2006
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

Because of the nature of this analysis no conclusion is possible. There are plenty of examples in the literature demonstrating the 'ecological fallacy'. Studies such as this have very little utility other than to generate hypotheses.

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