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Abstract
Clinicians and patients suffering from major depression are confronted with the gap between guidelines produced by so‐called evidence‐based medicine and prescription patterns emerging from experience‐based medicine, as well as with the gap between artisanal prescribing and the siren song of personalization, stratification and precision medicine.
期刊介绍:
World Psychiatry is the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association. It is published in three issues per year.
The journal is sent free of charge to psychiatrists whose names and addresses are provided by WPA member societies and sections.
World Psychiatry is also freely accessible on Wiley Online Library and PubMed Central.
The main aim of World Psychiatry is to disseminate information on significant clinical, service, and research developments in the mental health field.
The journal aims to use a language that can be understood by the majority of mental health professionals worldwide.