Stretching Beyond the Evidence Base

Bipolar Disorders
Simon A Rego, Jonathan E Alpert

Abstract

While evidence based therapies are what we aspire to deliver and what we teach future psychiatrists and psychologists, the generalizability of the evidence base is problematic. The quality of the evidence base is often judged by the rigor of the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that contribute to it. As a general rule, the more rigorous the RCTs, the more narrow the eligibility criteria and the more rigid and burdensome the study designs; hence the question of how those patients both willing and able to participate compare with patients in our office.

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