Journal article
Progress in the classification of functional psychoses
The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.144(11), pp.1471-1474
11/1987
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.144.11.1471
PMID: 3674229
Abstract
The three most widely used diagnostic systems in American psychiatry--the Feighner criteria, the Research Diagnostic Criteria, and DSM-III--appeared sequentially at 4-year intervals. The fact that the latter two systems each incorporated changes in essentially all diagnostic categories implied progress toward greater validity; however, this assumption has rarely been tested directly. To do this, the authors applied each of these three systems to 98 consecutively admitted patients with nonmanic psychoses. Although family history and 6-month follow-up data strongly supported the validity of diagnostic distinctions made in each of the three systems, they did not show increments in validity with successively developed criteria sets.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Progress in the classification of functional psychoses
- Creators
- W Coryell - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242M Zimmerman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.144(11), pp.1471-1474
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1176/ajp.144.11.1471
- PMID
- 3674229
- ISSN
- 0002-953X
- eISSN
- 1535-7228
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1987
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003926102771
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