Depression Update: A Briefing on the Canadian Mood and Anxiety Disorder Treatment (Canmat) 2023 Depression Guidelines and Advice for Their Application in Primary Care
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The Canadian Mood And Anxiety Disorder Treatment (CANMAT) guidelines for depression, last published in 2016, have now been updated with literature through to 2023, and have been recently published in 2024 (Lam et al , Canadian J Psych, In press 2024). This 92-page document thoroughly addresses aspects of depression management, using evidence based on the literature, and supplemented by an expert consensus of the 57 co-authors. While thorough, this document remains cumbersome for a busy primary care clinician to sort through and apply to everyday practice. Here, we present a summary of evidence for the treatment of depression, along with practical advice for clinical decision making in primary care.
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