How to Practice Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Table of Contents
Part 1: Basic Principles of Evidence-Based Psychiatry
What is evidence-based psychiatric practice? The 5-step evidence-based medicine model / Asking answerable questions / Searching for answers / Clinical trials / Systematic reviews and meta-analyses / Clinical practice guidelines / Measurement / Diagnostic tests / Surveys of disease frequency / Studies of risk or harm / Studies of prognosis / Evaluating your performance of evidence-based medicine / Evidence-based psychiatric practice / Teaching evidence-based medicine and evidence-based psychiatry practice to psychiatry residents
Part 2: Case Studies: Evidence-Based Medicine Applied to Major DSM-IV Disorders
Introduction to the cases / Panic disorder / Major depressive disorder and bulimia nervosa / Depression, refusal to eat, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma / Anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression / Major depressive disorder: a measurement-based care approach / Major depressive disorder, severe with psychotic features / Acute bipolar depression / Obsessive-compulsive disorder / Schizophrenia: a family psychoeducational approach / Substance use disorder presenting as a mood disorder / A complex personality disorder case / Bulimia nervosa
Part 3: Case Studies: Evidence-Based Psychiatric Practice in Different Settings
Dual diagnosis (PTSD/SUD) treated in Veterans Affairs health care facility / Severe and recurrent depression managed in a remote setting via the Internet: an example of remote care using the HealthSteps system / Postpartum depression treated in private practice / Bipolar disorder treated in the Kaiser Permanente health care system / Consultation-liaison psychiatry / Alcohol dependence treated by a psychiatry resident
Appendix A: glossary
Appendix B: statistical formulas and tables
Index