Panic disorder: Switch or augment?

If one first-line treatment–an antidepressant or CBT–does not work, standard guidelines (e.g., American Psychiatric Association, 2009) recommend that we can either add another medication (“augment”) or change (“switch”) to another treatment. But how should we decide which of the two options to choose? To augment or to switch, that is the question. While there isn’t much…