title: [How do Argentinean psychiatrists treat bipolar depression?].
abstract: We show the results of a survey on bipolar depression treatment using a sample of 359 argentine psychiatrists in the context of The National Psychiatry Congress that took place in the City of Buenos Aires, between September 26th and 29th, 2007. The objective was to study the attendant psychiatrists' prescribing habits in the treatment of bipolar depression. The discussion is based on the comparison between the answers and the recommendations taken from the main consensus, guidelines and from articles published by experts. The differences found point to the distance often present between guidelines and expert consensus series (based on patients meeting the strict criteria used in randomized controlled studies) on one hand, and a clinician's everyday real world practice, on the other hand.
authors.affiliation: smazaira@arnet.com.ar
authors.forename: Silvina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mazaira
authors.forename: Eduardo A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Leiderman
authors.forename: Martín
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nemirovsky
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vigo
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wikinski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001118:Argentina; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires