Background: For the last several years, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been
involved in the development of practice guidelines for major medical, surgical, and mental …

The Japanese Society of Mood Disorders established a committee for treatment guidelines
of mood disorders, which created the first edition of a treatment guideline for bipolar …

Within the bipolar world, there is a chronic gnashing of teeth among experts, decrying
clinicians' poor ability to diagnose bipolar disorder early in the course of the disorder. The …

OBJECTIVES: In this study, we evaluated the maintenance-treatment strategies of bipolar I
and bipolar II disorders of KMAP-BP 2018. METHODS: The questionnaire used to survey …

Background There is an increasing concern about the quality of clinical practice guidelines.
Because no information is available on the rigour of development of clinical practice …

Background While various guidelines on the treatment of bipolar disorder have been
published over the last decades, adherence to guidelines has been reported to be low. In …

Objective: To discuss the criteria used to diagnose the mood episodes that constitute bipolar
disorder, the approach to the differential diagnosis of these presentations, and the evidence …

Objectives: The Korean Medication Algorithm for Bipolar Disorder (KMAP-BP) was
developed in 2002 and subsequent minor revisions for mania, bipolar depression and rapid …

Since the publication of the first treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder (BD) by the
American Psychiatric Association (APA, 1994), several regional, national and international …

With the growth in the number of pharmacologic options available for the treatment of bipolar
disorder, clinicians face a challenge in appropriately selecting and sequencing newer and …