The Need to Adapt the Psychiatric Clinical Assessment to the Digital Age: A Practical Approach

Marcos A Moreno1, Lisa B Dixon1, Samantha Jankowski1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven (Moreno); Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City (Dixon, Jankowski, Erlich, First); Department of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (Adler); Canyon Manor Mental Health Rehabilitation Center, Novato, California (Berlant); Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, and Dartmouth Institute, Lebanon, New Hampshire (Brunette); Department of Psychiatry, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and David Geffen School of Medicine, Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Castillo); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (Edwards); Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto (Kozloff); Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Oslin, Talley); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Medical Center, Philadelphia (Oslin); Department of Psychiatry, Donna and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York (Siris).

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