title: [Clinical guidelines in mental health: situation in Argentina].
abstract: The permanent update of mental health professionals has become an actual requirement. Nowadays, there is an important concern to offer to the patient's problems the best therapeutics that respond to their specific needs. The well known Clinical Guides are tools to address that objective. In the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, France and some Latin American countries different organisms have been created with the objective to develop clinical guidelines. In Argentina, the situation is precarious. In Buenos Aires City, there are few efforts in such direction. An heterogeneous group of factors (social, economic, corporative, theoretical-academic or curricular and ideological) seem to difficult the development of a project of these characteristics, adapted to this population.
authors.affiliation: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Centro de Estudios Médicos e Investigaciones Clínicas Norberto Quirno, Buenos Aires. cgaray@arnet.com.ar
authors.forename: Cristian J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Garay
authors.forename: Guido P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Korman
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D002983:Clinical Competence; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic