Posted by capricorn on July 27, 2006, at 12:15:03
In reply to Re: New NICE guidelines on bipolar (UK), posted by greywolf on July 27, 2006, at 11:54:03
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> The NICE standards appear to be more restrictive in terms of who qualifies for the BP diagnosis. For instance, the standards require the manic stage to last between 2 weeks and 4 months. That is substantially longer than the doctors I've talked to would require in order to make the dx.
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> Is this an organization that advocates more limited patient access to medications?Let's just say they have a tendency to know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
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