ReviewTheoretical medicine and bioethics2007
Does evidence-based medicine apply to psychiatry?
Review in Theoretical medicine and bioethics, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Real-Life Clinical Experience With Cariprazine: A Systematic Review of Case Studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Case Report: Four cases for cariprazine and alcohol use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Biomarker-Guided Tailored Therapy in Major Depression.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry.Journal of medical ethics · 2023Article
- Critical reflections on the concept and impact of "scaling up" in Global Mental Health.Transcultural psychiatry · 2023Article
- Editorial: Novel antipsychotics within and beyond clinical trials: The treatment of overlapping psychiatric disorders with D3-D2 partial agonists.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Evidence-based medicine in psychopharmacotherapy: possibilities, problems and limitations.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2010Article
- Is evidence sufficient for evidence-based medicine?European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2009Review
- Neuropsychiatric clinical trials: should they accommodate real-world practices or set standards for clinical practices?Journal of clinical psychopharmacology · 2009Article
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Abstract
Evidence-based psychiatry (EBP) has arisen through the application of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to psychiatry. However, there may be aspects of psychiatric disorders and treatments that do not conform well to the assumptions of EBM. This paper reviews the ongoing debate about evidence-based psychiatry and investigates the applicability, to psychiatry, of two basic methodological features of EBM: prognostic homogeneity of clinical trial groups and quantification of trial outcomes. This paper argues that EBM may not be the best way to pursue psychiatric knowledge given the particular features of psychiatric disorders and their treatments. As a result, psychiatry may have to develop its own standards for rigour and validity. This paper concludes that EBM has had a powerful influence on how psychiatry investigates and understands mental disorders. Psychiatry could influence EBM in return, reshaping it in ways that are more clinically useful and congruent with patients' needs.
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