Integrating assessment data from multiple informants

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1078-1085

  Offord, David R ^a,b   Boyle, Michael H ^a   Racine, Yvonne ^a   Szatmarijan, Peter ^a   Fleming, Jan E ^a   Lipman, Ellen L ^a   Sanford, Mark ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

childhood disorder; classification; epidemiology; informants

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029792129     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199608000-00019     Document Type: Article

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