Placing symptoms in context: The role of contextual criteria in reducing false positives in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnoses

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 130-139

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a,b,c,d   First, Michael B ^d,e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; SYMPTOM; VALIDITY;

EID: 84855958642     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.03.001     Document Type: Review

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