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ReviewCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2014

The impact of psychopharmacology on contemporary clinical psychiatry.

Gustavo H Vázquez

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In one paragraph

Review in Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. The impact of psychopharmacology on contemporary psychiatry.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2014
    Article
  3. Competent psychopharmacology.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2014
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Gustavo H VázquezProfessor and Director, Department of Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical psychiatric evaluations of patients have changed dramatically in recent decades. Both initial assessments and follow-up visits have become brief and superficial, focused on searching for categorical diagnostic criteria from checklists, with limited inquiry into patient-reported symptomatic status and tolerability of treatments. The virtually exclusive therapeutic task has become selecting a plausible psychotropic, usually based on expert consensus guidelines. These guidelines and practice patterns rest mainly on published monotherapy trials that may or may not be applicable to particular patients but are having a profound impact, not only on modern psychiatric practice but also on psychiatric education, research, and theory.

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CanadaChecklistClinical CompetenceForecastingGuideline AdherenceHumansMental DisordersPractice Patterns, Physicians'PsychiatryPsychopharmacologyPsychotropic DrugsQuality Assurance, Health CareRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment OutcomePsychotropic Drugs

Identifiers

PMID25161065
PMCPMC4143297

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Registered trials

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