title: [Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Schizophrenia: Evaluation Using AGREE II].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Colombia is developing multiple national practice guidelines from a range of diseases. Clinical practice guidelines represent a very useful tool to be able to take decision over a patient care that is widely available for the clinician. In psychiatry there are a good number of international clinical guidelines for the treatment of schizophrenia nevertheless there is no article that evaluate them scientifically
  
  
  METHODS
  In the settings of developing a Colombian schizophrenia practice guideline, a systematic search was performed in multiple databases and the results were then evaluated by two trained persons. We present the results globally and by domains.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found 164 matches for possible guidelines. After screening 7 guidelines were evaluated with the AGREE II instrument. Globally and by the different domains, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) was the guideline that got the best score. From the guidelines that were reviewed, 4 were from Europe and only 2 were from Latin America. None of the guidelines used GRADE methodology for the recommendations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diversity of the schizophrenia treatment guidelines does not allow an easy adoption of the recommendation by a psychiatrist in Colombia.
authors.affiliation: Médica, magístra en Epidemiología Clínica. Profesora del Departamento de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Ana María
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: de la Hoz Bradford
authors.affiliation: Médico Servicio Social Obligatorio. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Mauricio J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ávila
authors.affiliation: Médica psiquiatra, magístra en Epidemiología Clínica. Profesora asistente del departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Adriana Patricia
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Bohórquez Peñaranda
authors.affiliation: Médica psiquiatra, doctora en Epidemiología Clínica. Profesora titular del Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García Valencia
authors.affiliation: Médico psiquiatra, Magíster en Epidemiología Clínica. Profesor del departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Álvaro Enrique
authors.initials: ÁE
authors.lastname: Arenas Borrero
authors.affiliation: Médica psiquiatra. Bogotá D.C. Delegada Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría, Colombia.
authors.forename: Ángela
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Vélez Traslaviña
authors.affiliation: Médico psiquiatra, Master en Farmacología. Profesor Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Luis Eduardo
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Jaramillo González
authors.affiliation: Médico psiquiatra, psicoanalista, psiquiatra de enlace, magíster en Epidemiología Clínica. Profesor titular y Director del Departamento de Epidemiología Clínica y Bioestadística. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia. Electronic address: cgomez@javeriana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gómez-Restrepo
keywords: AGREE II; Clinical Practice Guideline; Epidemiology; Epidemiología; Esquizofrenia; Evidence Based Medicine; Guías de Práctica Clínica; Medicina Basada en la Evidencia; Schizophrenia