OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this guideline was to suggest recommendations for appropriate use of antidepressants in the child-adolescent depression. The differences of efficacy among antidepressants were evaluated. METHODS: Four kinds of reliable guidelines for the treatments of child-adolescent depression had been selected, and evidences and recommendations were extracted by the executive committee under the peer review. All the process was applied to the Manual for Guideline Adaptation version 2.0 by National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency. RESULTS: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) could be considered for the treatments of moderate to severe child-adolescent depression. Among SSRIs, fluoxetine, sertraline, and escitalopram were recommended as having antidepressant efficacy compared with placebo, while paroxetine, venlafaxine, and tricyclic antidepressant were not recommended owing to lack of evidence. Another recommendation was to use combined treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy. CONCLUSION: This guideline, which was made through former and strict process of guideline adaptation, would contribute toward improving the quality of child-adolescent depression treatment by providing useful recommendations for the choice of antidepressant.
Adolescent ; Antidepressive Agents ; Child ; Citalopram ; Cognitive Therapy ; Delivery of Health Care ; Depression* ; Fluoxetine ; Humans ; Paroxetine ; Peer Review ; Serotonin ; Sertraline ; Venlafaxine Hydrochloride

Scholarly article writing and publishing in international peer-reviewed journals can become an overwhelming task for many medical, nursing, and healthcare professionals in a university setting, especially in countries whose native language is not English. To help improve their scientific writing skills and publishing capacity, a university-based editing system and writing programs can be developed as educational platforms. These are delivered by a team of specialist editors composed of tenured faculty members who have a strong medical background and extensive experience in teaching courses on medical research, editing, writing, and publishing. For the editing system, the specialist editors provide comprehensive editing, personalized consultation, full editorial support after peer review, guidance with online submissions/resubmissions, and detailed editorial review at different stages of the manuscript writing. In addition, the specialist editors can develop writing programs such as medical writing and editing internships, academic courses in medical writing or research study designs and reporting standards, special interactive lectures and sessions on predatory publishing, seminars on updated editorial guidance of global editorial associations, academic visits on medical writing and editing, medical writing mentoring program, networking programs in scholarly communication, and publication resources in medical writing and scholarly publishing. These editing system and writing programs can serve as integrated platforms for improving scientific writing skills and publishing capacity by providing continuing education in medical writing, editing, publishing, and publication ethics.
Delivery of Health Care ; Education, Continuing ; Ethics ; Humans ; Internship and Residency ; Lectures ; Medical Writing ; Mentors ; Nursing ; Peer Review ; Publications ; Specialization ; Writing*

This study aimed to assess the reliability of experienced Chinese orthodontists in evaluating treatment outcome and to determine the correlations between three diagnostic information sources. Sixty-nine experienced Chinese orthodontic specialists each evaluated the outcome of orthodontic treatment of 108 Chinese patients. Three different information sources: study casts (SC), lateral cephalometric X-ray images (LX) and facial photographs (PH) were generated at the end of treatment for 108 patients selected randomly from six orthodontic treatment centers throughout China. Six different assessments of treatment outcome were made by each orthodontist using data from the three information sources separately and in combination. Each assessment included both ranking and grading for each patient. The rankings of each of the 69 judges for the 108 patients were correlated with the rankings of each of the other judges yielding 13 873 Spearman rs values, ranging from -0.08 to +0.85. Of these, 90% were greater than 0.4, showing moderate-to-high consistency among the 69 orthodontists. In the combined evaluations, study casts were the most significant predictive component (R(2)=0.86, P<0.000 1), while the inclusion of lateral cephalometric films and facial photographs also contributed to a more comprehensive assessment (R(2)=0.96, P<0.000 1). Grading scores for SC+LX and SC+PH were highly significantly correlated with those for SC+LX+PH (r(SC+LX)vs.(SC+LX+PH)=0.96, r(SC+PH)vs.(SC+LX+PH)=0.97), showing that either SC+LX or SC+PH is an excellent substitute for all three combined assessment.
Adolescent ; Cephalometry ; standards ; China ; Dental Models ; standards ; Esthetics, Dental ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Malocclusion, Angle Class I ; therapy ; Malocclusion, Angle Class II ; therapy ; Malocclusion, Angle Class III ; therapy ; Orthodontics ; standards ; Peer Review, Health Care ; standards ; Photography ; standards ; Reproducibility of Results ; Treatment Outcome