Call for a European Guidelines Institute

Leucht, Stefan; Stiegler, Maximilian; Rummel, Christine; Wahlbeck, Kristian; Kissling, Werner

doi:10.1192/bjp.188.2.193

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“…Besides the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), there is a variety of national state or professional initiatives to develop evidence‐based mental health guidelines (1). In view of the low‐or‐moderate quality of many existing psychiatric guidelines (2, 3) and high spending on guideline development, some researchers have called for a European Guideline Institute with the aim of standardizing European medical care further (4). However, in contrast to increasingly strict good practice guidelines for randomized‐controlled trials (RCT) or guideline development, high‐quality studies of guideline implementation and validation are lacking (5, 6).…”

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Effects of implementation of psychiatric guidelines on provider performance and patient outcome: systematic review

Weinmann

Kösters

Becker

2007

Acta Psychiatr Scand

108

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Effects of implementation of psychiatric guidelines on provider performance and patient outcome: systematic review

Weinmann

Kösters

Becker

2007

Acta Psychiatr Scand

108

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“…While guideline development mainly takes place on a national or regional level, such as by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom or by the medical societies of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF) in Germany, guidance from a European perspective can be favorable against the background of a growing Europe and the associated harmonization on all levels of health care policy (8). The establishment of a European guidelines institute has been suggested previously and can be supported by the fact that evidence for guidelines is almost always international in nature (12).…”

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The EPA Guidance Project: Guidance for Mental Healthcare in Europe

Gäebel¹,

Großimlinghaus²,

Zielasek³

2015

Die Psychiatrie

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Summary Background: The development of guidelines is an important and common method to assure and improve quality in mental healthcare in European countries. While guidelines have to fulfill predefined criteria such as methodological accuracy of evidence retrieval and assessment, and stakeholder involvement, the development of guidance was not standardized yet. Aim: In 2008, the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) initiated the EPA Guidance project in order to provide guidance in the field of European psychiatry and related fields for topics that are not dealt with by guideline developers – for instance due to lack of evidence or lack of funding. The first three series of EPA Guidance deal with diverse topics that are relevant to European mental healthcare, such as quality assurance for mental health services, post-graduate training in mental healthcare, trust in mental health services and mental health promotion. Results: EPA Guidance recommendations address current and future challenges for European psychiatry. They are developed in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) European Mental Health Action Plan.

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“…Moreover, in times of a growing Europe with a requirement for harmonization on all levels of health care policy, ‘guidance’ should increasingly be sought from a European perspective–notwithstanding the need of including and adapting to the national perspectives of the member states. Indeed, it is in this scope that a European institute of guideline development has been suggested [9], and it is here where the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) has placed its own program: the ‘Guidance Project’.…”

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European guidance–a project of the European Psychiatric Association

Gäebel

Möller

2012

Eur. psychiatr.

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Evidence based medicine is a cornerstone of modern medicine including psychiatry. Treatment practice guidelines are nowadays available for guiding mental health care mainly with a focus on specific disorders. Many important clinical situations or problems beyond treatment, however, are lacking proper guidance. It is in this scope that a European Psychiatry Association (EPA) has developed its own program, the European Guidance Project. The present special issue presents six topics out of these series of guidance documents.

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Call for a European Guidelines Institute

Cited by 7 publications

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Effects of implementation of psychiatric guidelines on provider performance and patient outcome: systematic review

Effects of implementation of psychiatric guidelines on provider performance and patient outcome: systematic review

The EPA Guidance Project: Guidance for Mental Healthcare in Europe

European guidance–a project of the European Psychiatric Association

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