The SIEP-DIRECT'S Project on the discrepancy between routine practice and evidence in community based mental health services: can we find a happy medium?

Background/Objectives: Incorporating scientific evidence into the daily work of clinicians in mental health services (MHS) might be very difficult. The presentation aims to highlight the major discrepancies that emerged between evidence and routine practice in the framework of the SIEP-DIRECT'S Project (DIscrepancy between Routine practice and Evidence in psychiatric Community Treatments on Schizophrenia). The Project was conducted in 19 Italian mental health services (MHS), with the aims of: (a) evaluating the appropriateness of the NICE Guidelines for Schizophrenia (2003 version) in the Italian context, (b) de…