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International
●CINP: Treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder (2017)
●ISBD: Task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders (2013)
●WFSBP: Guidelines for the biological treatment of bipolar disorders – Update 2012 on the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder (published 2013)
●ISBD: Consensus guidelines for the safety monitoring of bipolar disorder treatments (2009)
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on bipolar disorder – Assessment and management (2014, updated 2020)
●NICE: Quality standard on bipolar disorder in adults (2015)
●NICE: Quality standard on bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (2015)
Australia-New Zealand
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Mood Disorders (JSMD): Treatment guidelines I – Bipolar disorder (2020)