title: The status of screening measures for bipolar disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Screening measures for bipolar disorder are positioned as playing an important role in improving diagnostic accuracy. This review considers the principal screening measures developed over the past decade.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Although the development and evaluation of bipolar screening measures were distinct between 2000 and 2010, there has been a decrease in research and evaluation in recent years. This article considers the main impetus for the development of screening measures for bipolar disorder and provides a description and critique of the principal measures used in both clinical and community settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Screening measures have an important role in identifying bipolar disorder but are best positioned as a first-stage strategy rather than as definitive diagnostic measures. Although several have been developed and well validated in clinical settings, there is a distinct need for extension studies exploring their classificatory properties in community settings as well as clinical impact studies to determine their 'real world' utility.
authors.affiliation: aSchool of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney bBlack Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Rebecca K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Gordon B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards