The clinical global impression scale and the influence of patient or staff perspective on outcome

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Forkmann, Thomas ^a   Scherer, Anne ^a   Boecker, Maren ^a   Pawelzik, Markus ^b   Jostes, Ralf ^b   Gauggel, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b EOS Hospital for Psychotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCORING SYSTEM; TEAMWORK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 79955858478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-83     Document Type: Article

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