The terms ‘response’ and ‘remission’ have been used to mean different things in psychiatric research; the most commonly used meanings of these terms in studies of treatment outcomes in people with major depression disorder are given on the slide.1,2
References:
1.Nierenberg AA, DeCecco LM. Definitions of antidepressant treatment response, remission, nonresponse, partial response, and other relevant outcomes: a focus on treatment-resistant depression. J Clin Psychiatry 2001; 62 (Suppl 16): 5–9.
2.Frank E, Prien RF, Jarrett RB, et al. Conceptualization and rationale for consensus definitions of terms in major depressive disorder. Remission, recovery, relapse, and recurrence. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1991; 48 (9): 851–855.
