title: Who decides what evidence is? Developing a multiple perspectives paradigm in mental health.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare different perspectives on evidence in relation to mental health care.
  
  
  METHODS
  The method and materials constitute a selective literature review comparing key elements of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based policy with perspectives on evidence from users, carers and professionals. The aim was to develop an argument concerning these comparisons.
  
  
  RESULTS
  What constitutes evidence from the perspectives of different stakeholders is a field of contestation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is timely for a multiple perspective paradigm on evidence in science to be developed and this paper initiates this process in relation to mental health care.
authors.affiliation: Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK. d.rose@iop.kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thornicroft
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Slade
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011050:Policy Making; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom