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Article History

Received: 17 January 2020

Accepted: 24 September 2020

First Online: 12 October 2020

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: LL, EW, MH and AR report no conflicts of interest.IK declares no conflicts of interests. She serves as guideline advisor in several German and international clinical practice guideline projects and received various research grants to promote guideline methodology and guideline accreditation and has no ties to the pharmaceutical or medical device industry.FJ has received fee for advice from (last two years): Roche, Biogen, AC Immune, Janssen Cilag, GE healthcare, Danone and Vifor Pharma.PF has received grants and served as consultant, advisor, or CME speaker for the following entities: Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Essex, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Gedeon Richter, Servier, Takeda, the German Ministry of Science and the German Ministry of Health. He is co-editor of the German S3-guideline schizophrenia.WS has received paid speakership by Mag and More.AH has been invited to scientific meetings by Lundbeck, Janssen-Cilag and Pfizer and he received paid speakerships from Desitin, Janssen-Cilag, Otsuka and Lundbeck. He was member of Roche, Otsuka, Lundbeck and Janssen-Cilag advisory boards. He is editor of the WFSBP guidelines schizophrenia and the WFSBP guidelines of how to develop guidelines and co-editor of the German S3-guideline schizophrenia.