Publisher's Synopsis
This guideline on Schizophrenia, commissioned by NICE and developed by the
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, sets out clear, evidence- and
consensus-based recommendations for healthcare staff on how to manage and treat
schizophrenia in adults.
This guideline is an update of the previous
guidance (full guideline published 2003), which was the first guideline that
NICE ever produced and which was judged to be superior to other schizophrenia
guidelines in an international survey.
This updated guideline provides
new clinical and economic evidence about the use of psychological and
psychosocial interventions and antipsychotic drugs and new reviews of early
intervention services, primary care and treatment for physical health problems.
There are also new chapters on access and engagement for minority ethnic groups
and on service user and carer experience of treatment and care for
schizophrenia.
NICE Mental Health Guidelines
These guidelines
from NICE set out clear recommendations, based on the best available evidence,
for health care professionals on how to work with and implement physical,
psychological and service-level interventions for people with various mental
health conditions.
The book contains the full guidelines that cannot be
obtained in print anywhere else. It brings together all of the evidence that led
to the recommendations made, detailed explanations of the methodology behind
their preparation, plus an overview of the condition covering detection,
diagnosis and assessment, and the full range of treatment and care
approaches.
The accompanying free CD-ROM contains all the data used as
evidence, including:
- Included and excluded studies.
- Profile tables that summarise both the quality of the evidence and the results of the evidence synthesis.
- All meta-analytical data, presented as forest plots.
- Detailed information about how to use and interpret forest plots.
