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[The epidemiological aspect of the problem of diagnosing borderline mental disorders]
Abstract:
The range of prevalence rates for borderline mental disorders is very wide: from 17 to 210 cases per 1000 population. Considerable differences are explained both by a problem of detection of such patients and by certain diagnostic difficulties. Most clinical notions concerning borderline states are insufficiently definite and this has considerable influence on the results of epidemiologic researches. Analysis of the frequency of clinical diagnoses in two Moscow primary care out-patient clinics showed considerable differences which has disappeared under ICD-10 diagnosis.
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