Initial diagnosis and treatment in first-episode psychosis: Can an operationalized diagnostic classification system enhance treating clinicians' diagnosis and the treatment chosen?

Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-139

  Coentre, Ricardo ^a,b   Blanco, Pablo ^a,b   Fontes, Silvina ^a,b   Power, Paddy ^a,b  

^a SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical diagnosis; DSM IV; First episode psychosis; ICD 10; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHECKLIST; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC PSYCHOSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPERATIONAL CRITERIA CHECKLIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS;

EID: 79955484373     PISSN: 17517885     EISSN: 17517893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2010.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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