GUIDELINES IN PSYCHIATRY

Introduction: Guidelines are important to the effective implementation of modern psychiatry. Method: Review Article, using various sources. Results: The writer’s own experience of drafting guidelines is drawn upon, while pubmed articles have been searched on how to implement guidelines. Discussion: The utility of guidelines are discussed and the relationship of guidelines to audit is explained. Conclusion: Guidelines need to be effectively researched in order to have credibility; they need to be properly implemented in order to achieve desired improvement in practice and their implementation needs to be audited