Preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of the prospective life-chart methodology (LCM-p)

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 593-603

  Denicoff, Kirk D ^a   Smith Jackson, E E ^a   Disney, E R ^a   Suddath, R L ^a   Leverich, G S ^a   Post, R M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MANIA; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOOD; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CARBAMAZEPINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; LITHIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0030763292     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3956(96)00027-1     Document Type: Article

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