A Comparison of Clinical and Diagnostic Interview Schedule Diagnoses: Physician Reexamination of Lay-Interviewed Cases in the General Population

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1985, Pages 657-666

  Helzer, John E ^a   Robins, Lee N ^a   McEvoy, Larry T ^a   Spitznagel, Edward L ^b   Stoltzman, Roger K ^c   Farmer, Anne ^d   Brockington, Ian F ^e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Psychiatry ^*

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MANUALS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0021881246     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1985.01790300019003     Document Type: Article

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