Contents // Forewords v // About the editors vii // About the contributors viii // Introduction // Paula Whitty and Martin Eccles 1 // Chapter 1 // The potential benefits, limitations and harms of clinical practice guidelines // Steven H Woolf, Martin Eccles, Richard Grol, Allen Hutchinson and // Jeremy Grimshaw 5 // Chapter 2 // Developing guidelines // Paul G Shekelle, Martin Eccles, Steven H Woolf and Jeremy Grimshaw 13 // Chapter 3 // Health economics and clinical practice guidelines // Martin Eccles and James Mason 25 // Chapter 4 // The legal status of clinical practice guidelines // Brian S Hurwitz 37 // Chapter 5 // Using clinical practice guidelines // Gene Feder, Martin Eccles, Richard Grol, Chris Griffiths and // Jeremy Grimshaw 53 // Chapter 6 // The Mental Health Technology Appraisal and Clinical Guidelines Programmes of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence for England and Wales // Peter Littlejohns, Gillian Leng and Carole Longson 63 // Chapter 7 // Mental health guidelines development in Scotland // Joanne Topalian and Sara Twaddle 73 // iv Contents // Chapter 8 // The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health // Tim Kendall and Steve Pilling 81 // Chapter 9 // Using mental health guidelines in the NHS: views from a specialist mental health trust // Roger Paxton, Paula Whitty and Hugh Griffiths 93 // Chapter 10 // Using mental health guidelines in primary care: the example of depression management // Paul Walters, Simon Gilbody and Andre Tylee 105
// Postscript 115 // Appendix: Completed NICE mental health technology // appraisals and guidelines: summaries as available from the // NICE website 117 // Index 12-9 // f