title: [Development of national guidelines for depression].
abstract: Depressive disorders rank among the most frequent causes of consultation and diseases in health care. Although they are treatable, there is further need to optimize diagnostics and therapy, despite sizable progress in recent years. The implementation of evidence- and consensus-based guidelines is an appropriate measure to improve care for depressive patients. An evidence-based guideline for depression is currently being developed for Germany. In order to ensure its acceptance and a wide dissemination, this guideline will be adopted in consensus by all relevant health care providers in this field. According to this, it is a future challenge to anchor guideline-based diagnostics and treatment in routine care.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Sektion Kloinische Epidemiologie und Versorgungsforschung, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 5, Freiburg, BRD. martin.haerter@uniklinik-freiburg.de
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Härter
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Klesse
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bermejo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lelgemann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weinbrenner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ollenschläger
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kopp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berger
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005858:Germany; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D010380:Peer Review; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014944:World Health Organization