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Reliability of Psychiatric Diagnosis: II. The Test/Retest Reliability of Diagnostic Classification
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In a study of interrater diagnostic reliability, 101 psychiatric inpatients were independently interviewed by physicians using a structured interview. Newly admitted patients were randomly selected and examined by one of three psychiatrists. A second psychiatrist reexamined the same patient about 24 hours later. Interviews from the two examinations were evaluated independently and diagnoses were made on the basis of objective criteria. The degree of diagnostic agreement for the two examinations were calculated using the kappa statistic. Agreement was found to be high as compared to other studies in the psychiatric literature, despite the fact that in most previous investigations diagnoses were not made independently. The results were also compared to studies of reliability of medical judgments. Possible reasons for the high interrater reliability are discussed and include the use of a structured interview and objective diagnostic criteria.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Helzer, J. E.
- Venue
- Archives of General Psychiatry
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1977-02-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 136
- ISSN
- 0003-990X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2136936616
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 24.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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