Clinical practice guidelines for bipolar disorder should lead to better treatment outcomes by providing evidence‐based and easy to use recommendations for clinicians regarding diagnosis and treatment. When formulating clinical guidelines, experts and taskforces face a dilemma of including evidence‐based recommendations versus consensus‐based recommendations using committee and taskforce members expertise and clinical experience to determine the clinical usefulness of specific treatment approaches, especially in areas and situations where there are knowledge gaps and current studies do not answer real world problems faced by clinicians. Remarkably, the outcomes of these competing approaches have never been compared.

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双相情感障碍的循证与临床专业知识指南

双相情感障碍的临床实践指南应通过为临床医生提供基于证据且易于使用的诊断和治疗建议，从而获得更好的治疗结果。在制定临床指南时，专家和工作组面临着两难选择，即使用委员会和工作组成员的专业知识和临床经验来确定特定治疗方法的临床有用性，尤其是在有知识的领域和情况下，纳入基于证据的建议还是基于共识的建议差距和当前的研究并没有回答临床医生面临的现实世界问题。值得注意的是，这些竞争方法的结果从未被比较过。