Evidence-Based Guidelines: Response to Professor Gordon Parker's Critique Journal Articles

abstract

• Objective: To clarify the development of the ‘Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of depression’ and to discuss the critique of these guidelines. Method: Consideration of international practice in evidence-based medicine and rebuttal of criticisms. Results: We agree with Professor Gordon Parker on fundamental issues in the treatment of depression. His main criticisms reflect his concerns about the classification of depression. We consider that many of his detailed criticisms reflect a difference of opinion on how data should be evaluated or interpreted. Conclusions: The guideline for the treatment of depression makes sound recommendations, in agreement with comparable guidelines from the US and the UK.

authors

• Ellis, Peter
• Hickie, Ian B
• Smith, Don AR

status

• published 

publication date

• November 2004

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Australia (MeSH)
• Depression (MeSH)
• Evidence-Based Medicine (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Mental Health Services (MeSH)
• Practice Guidelines as Topic (MeSH)
• Psychiatry (MeSH)
• Psychiatry (Science Metrix)

published in

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry  Journal

keywords

• Australia
• Depression
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Humans
• Mental Health Services
• Practice Guidelines as Topic
• Psychiatry

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/j.1440-1614.2004.01506.x

PubMed ID

• 15555022

start page

• 891

end page

• 895

volume

• 38

issue

• 11-12