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Reliability of diagnosis in mood disorders
C E Holzer1, H T Nguyen, R M Hirschfeld
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
The reliability of diagnosing mood disorders is reviewed for previous and current versions of the American Psychiatric Association's DMS. Reliability is shown to improve with the increasing specificity of diagnostic criteria. The new specifiers for the course of major depression in relation to dysthymia also are shown to be reliable.