Expanding the target audience for management guidelines: Co-development of the patient and family guide to the CANMAT and ISBD bipolar disorder guidelines.

Abstract

The Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) have continued their longstanding collaboration in developing new guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder (BD). These highly-cited guidelines have been published and translated into several languages, and are a key resource to clinicians, educators, and academics around the world.