Clinical guidelines for the management of treatment-resistant depression: French recommendations from experts, the French Association for Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology and the fondation FondaMental.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clear guidance for successive antidepressant pharmacological treatments for non-responders in major depression is not well established.

Method

Based on the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method, the French Association for Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology and the fondation FondaMental developed expert consensus guidelines for the management of treatment-resistant depression. The expert guidelines combine scientific evidence and expert clinicians' opinions to produce recommendations for treatment-resistant depression. A written survey comprising 118 questions related to highly-detailed clinical presentations was completed on a risk-benefit scale ranging from 0 to 9 by 36 psychiatrist experts in the field of major depression and its treatments. Key-recomm

SUBMITTER: Bennabi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712810 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature