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Tim Kendall1, Craig J Whittington2, Elizabeth Kuipers2
1Tim Kendall, FRCPsych, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust; Craig J. Whittington, PhD, Doctor Evidence; Elizabeth Kuipers, FBPsS, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London; Sonia Johnson, FRCPsych, Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London; Max J. Birchwood, FBPsS, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry; Max Marshall, FRCPsych, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and School of Medicine, Manchester University, Manchester; Anthony P. Morrison, FBPsS, University of Manchester and Psychosis Research Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK tim.kendall@shsc.nhs.uk.
Abstract:
A recent editorial claimed that the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on psychosis and schizophrenia, unlike its equivalent 2013 Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline, is biased towards psychosocial treatments and against drug treatments. In this paper we underline that the NICE and SIGN guidelines recommend similar interventions, but that the NICE guideline has more rigorous methodology. Our analysis suggests that the authors of the editorial appear to have succumbed to bias themselves.
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