What is "functional impairment"? Disentangling disability from clinical significance

World Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 82-85

  Üstün, Bedirhan ^a   Kennedy, Cille ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Disability; DSM; Functional impairment; ICD; ICF; Severity

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MENTAL DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 67651173210     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2009.tb00219.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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