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Treatment guidelines constitute one of the important developments in the field of psychiatry, after the introduction of the operationalized diagnostic criteria in the frame of modern classification systems and the advancing of evidence-based medicine (EBM) also in psychiatry. They emerged as an important element in order to summarize and clarify the research data and, to the extent this is possible, to standardize treatment on the basis of evidence. They also emerged as a response to the need of many clinicians for algorithms, which would be able to carry research findings to the everyday clinical practice by organizing information from diverse sources into an easily accessible and reliable format.

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Fountoulakis, K.N. (2015). Treatment Guidelines. In: Bipolar Disorder. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37216-2_18

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