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Brief report on the clinical reappraisal of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule carried out at the Johns Hopkins site of the Epidemiological Catchment Area Program of the NIMH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Marshal F. Folstein ,
Alan J. Romanoski ,
Gerald Nestadt ,
Raman Chahal ,
Altaf Merchant ,
Sam Shapiro ,
Morton Kramer ,
James Anthony ,
Ernest M. Gruenberg  and
Paul R. McHugh
Marshal F. Folstein*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Alan J. Romanoski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gerald Nestadt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Raman Chahal
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Altaf Merchant
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sam Shapiro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Morton Kramer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
James Anthony
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ernest M. Gruenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Paul R. McHugh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Marshal Folstein,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Room 320 Osler, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Synopsis

A psychiatric examination was conducted on 810 community dwelling subjects previously given a diagnosis derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). The agreement in allocating subjects to a particular disorder was never high enough to encourage the confident replacement of a psychiatric diagnosis with a DIS diagnosis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , November 1985 , pp. 809 - 814
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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