Comparative efficacy and tolerability of pharmacological treatments in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 351-359

  Miura, Tomofumi ^a   Noma, Hisashi ^b   Furukawa, Toshi A ^c   Mitsuyasu, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Shiro ^c   Stockton, Sarah ^d   Salanti, Georgia ^e   Motomura, Keisuke ^a   Shimano Katsuki, Satomi ^a   Leucht, Stefan ^f   Cipriani, Andrea ^d,g   Geddes, John R ^d   Kanba, Shigenobu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919959977     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(14)70314-1     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 2013, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, VA. 5th edn.
2. Phillips ML, Kupfer DJ Bipolar disorder diagnosis: challenges and future directions. Lancet 2013, 381:1663-1671.
3. Merikangas KR, Jin R, He JP, et al. Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2011, 68:241-251.
4. Goodwin FK, Jamison KR Manic-depressive illness 2007, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2nd edn.
5. Keller MB, Lavori PW, Coryell W, Endicott J, Mueller TI Bipolar I: a five-year prospective follow-up. J Nerv Ment Dis 1993, 181:238-245.
6. Tohen M, Waternaux CM, Tsuang MT Outcome in mania. A 4-year prospective follow-up of 75 patients utilizing survival analysis. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1990, 47:1106-1111.
7. Bipolar disorder: the management of bipolar disorder in adults, children and adolescents, in primary and secondary care National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, (accessed April 14, 2014). http://www.nice.org.uk/CG038.
8. Yatham LN, Kennedy SH, Parikh SV, et al. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2013. Bipolar Disord 2013, 15:1-44.
9. Geddes JR, Miklowitz DJ Treatment of bipolar disorder. Lancet 2013, 381:1672-1682.
10. Cipriani A, Barbui C, Salanti G, et al. Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antimanic drugs in acute mania: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis. Lancet 2011, 378:1306-1315.
11. Cipriani A, Furukawa TA, Salanti G, et al. Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 12 new-generation antidepressants: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis. Lancet 2009, 373:746-758.
12. Leucht S, Cipriani A, Spineli L, et al. Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 15 antipsychotic drugs in schizophrenia: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis. Lancet 2013, 382:951-962.
13. Higgins JP, Green S, eds. Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions, version 5.1.0, updated March, 2011. (accessed Aug 5, 2013). http://www.cochrane-handbook.org.
14. Caldwell DM, Ades AE, Higgins JP Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence. BMJ 2005, 331:897-900.
15. Higgins JP, Whitehead A Borrowing strength from external trials in a meta-analysis. Stat Med 1996, 15:2733-2749.
16. Lu G, Ades AE Combination of direct and indirect evidence in mixed treatment comparisons. Stat Med 2004, 23:3105-3124.
17. Salanti G Indirect and mixed-treatment comparison, network, or multiple-treatments meta-analysis: many names, many benefits, many concerns for the next generation evidence synthesis tool. Res Synth Methods 2012, 3:80-97.
18. Salanti G, Higgins JP, Ades AE, Ioannidis JP Evaluation of networks of randomized trials. Stat Methods Med Res 2008, 17:279-301.
19. DerSimonian R, Laird N Meta-analysis in clinical trials. Control Clin Trials 1986, 7:177-188.
20. Viechtbauer W Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. J Stat Softw 2010, 36:1-48.
21. Lunn D, Spiegelhalter D, Thomas A, Best N The BUGS project: evolution, critique and future directions. Stat Med 2009, 28:3049-3067.
22. Cipriani A, Higgins JP, Geddes JR, Salanti G Conceptual and technical challenges in network meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med 2013, 159:130-137.
23. Chaimani A, Higgins JP, Mavridis D, Spyridonos P, Salanti G Graphical tools for network meta-analysis in STATA. PloS One 2013, 8:e76654.
24. Dias S, Welton NJ, Sutton AJ, Caldwell DM, Lu G, Ades AE Evidence synthesis for decision making 4: inconsistency in networks of evidence based on randomized controlled trials. Med Decis Making 2013, 33:641-656.
25. Salanti G, Marinho V, Higgins JP A case study of multiple-treatments meta-analysis demonstrates that covariates should be considered. J Clin Epidemiol 2009, 62:857-864.
26. Balshem H, Helfand M, Schunemann HJ, et al. GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence. J Clin Epidemiol 2011, 64:401-406.
27. Amsterdam JD, Garcia-España F, Fawcett J, et al. Efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in treating bipolar II major depressive episode. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1998, 18:435-440.
28. Cipriani A, Barbui C, Rendell J, Geddes JR Clinical and regulatory implications of active run-in phases in long-term studies for bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2014, 129:328-342.
29. Soares-Weiser K, Bravo Vergel Y, Beynon S, et al. A systematic review and economic model of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions for preventing relapse in people with bipolar disorder. Health Technol Assess 2007, 11:iii-iiv. ix-206.
30. Smith LA, Cornelius V, Warnock A, Bell A, Young AH Effectiveness of mood stabilizers and antipsychotics in the maintenance phase of bipolar disorder: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Bipolar Diord 2007, 9:394-412.
31. Vieta E, Günther O, Locklear J, et al. Effectiveness of psychotropic medications in the maintenance phase of bipolar disorse: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2011, 14:1029-1049.