Misinterpreting this Depression Study May Lead Doctors to Treat the Wrong People

The study claims to predict response to escitalopram treatment — but that is a potentially dangerous interpretation.

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE
5 min readJan 8, 2020

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It’s a new year, and after a little holiday break I’m back and, frankly, a bit cranky as I peruse the recently-published medical…

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F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

Medicine, science, statistics. Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale. New book “How Medicine Works and When it Doesn’t” available now.