TY - JOUR T1 - Costs of antidepressant overdose: a preliminary study. JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 733 LP - 734 VL - 49 IS - 446 AU - N Kapur AU - A House AU - F Creed AU - E Feldman AU - T Friedman AU - E Guthrie Y1 - 1999/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/49/446/733.abstract N2 - There is ongoing debate regarding the relative cost effectiveness of different classes of antidepressants. Although factors such as tolerability and discontinuation rates have been taken into account, there has been little consideration of the cost of overdose. In the current study we examined the cost of antidepressant overdose at four teaching hospitals over a four-week period and found that the cost of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor overdose was less than half that of tricyclic anti-depressant overdose. The cost of overdose is often ignored and should be considered in future analyses of the cost effectiveness of different antidepressant prescribing policies in primary care. ER -