TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Treatments for the prevention and management of suicide JO - Annals of internal medicine A1 - Kelly, Deanna L. A1 - Gorelick, David A. A1 - Wehring, Heidi J. A1 - Vyas, Gopal A1 - Buchanan, Robert W. SP - 167 EP - 168 VL - 172 IS - 2 N2 -
D'Anci and colleagues' systematic review (1) is a welcome addition to the literature on the prevention and treatment of suicidality, a major public health crisis in the United States. However, their criterion of including only double-blind, randomized clinical trials caused them to omit mention of clozapine, one of the few medications with proven efficacy for the treatment of suicidality. Clozapine, an antipsychotic medication, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the indication of reducing the risk for recurrent suicidal behavior in persons with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. This approval was based...
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LA - en SN - 0003-4819 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/L19-0706 ID - ref1 ER -