What should the standard of care for psychiatric diagnostic evaluations be?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 281-286

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bayside Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCREENING;

COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038102357     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200305000-00002     Document Type: Review

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