Interobserver reliability of a “standardized psychiatric examination” (SPE) for case ascertainment (DSM-III)

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 68-71

  Romanoski, A J ^a   Nestadt, G ^a   Chahal, R ^a   Merchant, A ^a   Folstein, M F ^a   Gruenberg, E M ^a   McHugh, P R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STANDARD; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; RELIABILITY;

CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MANUALS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023818213     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198802000-00001     Document Type: Article

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