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Toshi A. Furukawa
Researcher at Kyoto University
Publications - 555
Citations - 24121
Toshi A. Furukawa is an academic researcher from Kyoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 478 publications receiving 17409 citations. Previous affiliations of Toshi A. Furukawa include University of Melbourne & University of Cambridge.
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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Andrea Cipriani,Andrea Cipriani,Toshi A. Furukawa,Georgia Salanti,Anna Chaimani,Anna Chaimani,Anna Chaimani,Lauren Z Atkinson,Lauren Z Atkinson,Yusuke Ogawa,Stefan Leucht,Henricus G. Ruhé,Henricus G. Ruhé,Erick H. Turner,Julian P T Higgins,Matthias Egger,Nozomi Takeshima,Yu Hayasaka,Hissei Imai,Kiyomi Shinohara,Aran Tajika,John P. A. Ioannidis,John R. Geddes,John R. Geddes +23 more
TL;DR: This work aimed to update and expand previous work to compare and rank antidepressants for the acute treatment of adults with unipolar major depressive disorder, and found that all antidepressants were more effective than placebo.
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Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative
Ronald C. Kessler,Jennifer Greif Green,Michael J. Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Evelyn J. Bromet,Marius Cuitan,Toshi A. Furukawa,Oye Gureje,Hristo Hinkov,Chi yi Hu,Carmen Lara,Sing Lee,Zeina Mneimneh,Landon Myer,Mark Oakley-Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Maria Carmen Viana,Alan M. Zaslavsky +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported on the background and performance of the K6 screening scale for serious mental illness (SMI) in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) surveys.
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The performance of the K6 and K10 screening scales for psychological distress in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being.
TL;DR: In this paper, two new screening scales for psychological distress, the K6 and K10, have been developed but their relative efficiency has not been evaluated in comparison with existing scales.
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Imputing missing standard deviations in meta-analyses can provide accurate results.
Toshi A. Furukawa,Corrado Barbui,Andrea Cipriani,Paolo Brambilla,Norio Watanabe,Norio Watanabe +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the actual standardized mean difference (SMD) of individual RCTs and the meta-analytically pooled SMD of all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) against those based on the above-mentioned two imputation methods in two meta-analyses of antidepressants.
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The performance of the Japanese version of the K6 and K10 in the World Mental Health Survey Japan
Toshi A. Furukawa,Norito Kawakami,Mari Saitoh,Yutaka Ono,Yoshibumi Nakane,Yosikazu Nakamura,Hisateru Tachimori,Noboru Iwata,Hidenori Uda,Hideyuki Nakane,Makoto Watanabe,Yoichi Naganuma,Yukihiro Hata,Masayo Kobayashi,Yuko Miyake,Tadashi Takeshima,Takehiko Kikkawa +16 more
TL;DR: The Japanese versions of the K6 and K10 demonstrated screening performances essentially equivalent to those of the original English versions, and Stratum‐specific likelihood ratios (SSLRs) were strikingly similar between the Japanese and the original versions.