Some Clinical Diagnoses are More Reliable than Others
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to facilitate understanding of the nature of mental disorder diagnoses by examining the extent to which the degree of diagnostic specificity (i.e., group, type, or subtype) and the social context (i.e., certain circumstances under which diagnoses take place) affect diagnostic agreement (the reliability of measures across time). Also, the present study investigated the transformative nature of certain mental disorder diagnoses (i.e., how some mental disorder diagnoses change by their very nature) by tracking classifications both into and out of particular diagnostic categories. Keywords: Psychiatry; Diagnosis (medicine).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 29, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA211079
Entities
People
- B. Kilbourne
- Joel Goodman
- S. Hilton
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center