N-acetylcysteine as add-on to antidepressant medication in therapy refractory major depressive disorder patients with increased inflammatory activity: study protocol of a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial

Table 2 clinical assessment time points

	Physical Examination	Scale Assessments	Medication use inventory	Laboratory examinations
Baseline	√	Scale 1, Scale 2, Scale 3	√	Routine test, Specific test
Week 2	√	Scale 1
Week 4	√	Scale 1, Scale 2
Week 6		Scale 1
Week 8	√	Scale 1, Scale 2
Week 10		Scale 1
Week 12	√	Scale 1, Scale 2	√	Routine test, Specific test

Week 2 indicates that the time point is at the end of the second week after baseline, while other time points are synchronized in the same way

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