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Table 1 Guideline Characteristics

From: Guidelines for dementia or Parkinson’s disease with depression or anxiety: a systematic review

Author (year)

Organiz-ation

Primary conditiona

Focus

Region of origin

# of Committee membersi

#of Refs

Systematic search (Y/N)

Grading of evidence (Y/N)

Funding (NS, P, NC, G)j

Mean quality score

Zesiewicz et al. (2010) [35]

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

PD

Treatment

USA

9

40

Y

Y

NC

4.5

No Author (2010)b [37]

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

PD

Diagnosis Treatment

Scotland

20

189

Y

Y

G

6

Grimes et al. (2012)c [34]

Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation (CNSF) & Parkinson Society Canada

PD

Diagnosis Treatment

Canada

22

62

Y

Y

NC & P

6.5

Berardelli et al. (2013) [38]

European Federation of Neurological Societies & Movement Disorder Society—European Section (EFNS-MDS-ES)

PD

Diagnosis

Europe

25

245

Y

Y

NS h

5

Ferreira et al. (2013) [40]

European Federation of Neurological Societies & Movement Disorder Society—European Section (EFNS-MDS-ES)

PD

Treatment

Europe

22

363

Y

Y

NC

4.5

Hort et al. (2010) [47]

European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)

Dementia

Diagnosis Treatment

Europe

8

100

Y

Y

NC

4.25

No Author (2010) [42]

Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality & Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AIAQS)

Dementia

Diagnosis Treatment

Spain

67

688

Y

Y

NC & G

5.75

No Author (2011)d [41]

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, British Psychological Society & The Royal College of Psychiatrists (NICE)

Dementia

Diagnosis & Treatment

UK

28

NNh

Y

Y

NC & G

6.5

Ihl et al. (2011) [44]

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP)

Dementia

Treatment

International

39

215f

Y

Y

NC

4.5

No Author (2011) [43]

Clinical Research Centre for Dementia (CRCD)

Dementia

Diagnosis

South Korea

20

NNh

Y

Y

G

5.25

O’Brien et al. (2011) [60]

British Association of Psychopharmacology (BPA)

Dementia

Treatment

UK

16

148f

N

Y

NC & P

4

Sorbi et al. (2012) [45]

European Federation of Neurological Societies & European Neurological Society (EFNS-ES)

Dementia

Diagnosis Treatment

Europe

17

189

Y

Y

NC

4.5

Gauthier et al (2012)e [50]

Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD4)

Dementia

Diagnosis Treatment

Canada

38

19

Y

Y

NC

5.5

Gelenberg et al. (2010)g [39]

American Psychiatric Association (APA)

Depression

Treatment

USA

7

1170

Y

Y

NC

4.75

Dua et al. (2011) [49]

World Health Organization (WHO)

Mental Health

Diagnosis Treatment

International

29

36

Y

Y

NC & G

5.5

No Author (2012) [46]

Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality & Galician Health Technology Assessment Agency (Availia-T)

Suicide

Diagnosis Treatment

Spain

24

683

Y

Y

NC & G

5

Mitchell et al. (2013) [48]

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)

Depression

Diagnosis Treatment

USA

14

331

Y

Y

NC

5.75

  1. a Dementia guidelines primarily included Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, general dementia care and one referred to Lewy Body Disease
  2. b Includes Grosset et al. [54]
  3. c Includes Patel et al. [61]
  4. d Originally created in 2007 and updated in 2011
  5. e Includes Moore et al. [62], Herrman et al. [63]
  6. f Number counted from the text
  7. g Includes Recommendations Referenced in Rabin et al. [64]
  8. h NS: Not Stated, NN: Not Numbered
  9. i Committee members—extracted from paper as listed (e.g. authors listed, guideline development/working groups etc.)
  10. j NC: Non-Commercial, G: Government, Pharmaceutical, NS: Not Stated
  11. References: The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) [35], Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) [37, 54], Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation (CNSF) [34], Parkinson’s Society Canada [34], European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) (n = 4) [38, 40, 45, 47], Movement Disorders Society-European Section (MDS-ES) [38, 40], National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) [41], Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality & Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AIAQS) [42], British Psychological Society [41], The Royal College of Psychiatrists [41], World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) [44], Clinical Research Centre for Dementia (CRCD), British Association of Psychopharmacology (BPA) [60], European Neurological Society, Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia (CCCDTD4) [50], American Psychiatric Association (APA) [39], World Health Organization (WHO) [49], Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality & Galician Health Technology Assessment Agency (Availia-T) [46] and the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) [48]