Brief report on the clinical reappraisal of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule carried out at the Johns Hopkins site of the Epidemiological Catchment Area Program of the NIMH. Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • A psychiatric examination was conducted on 810 community dwelling subjects previously given a diagnosis derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). The agreement in allocating subjects to a particular disorder was never high enough to encourage the confident replacement of a psychiatric diagnosis with a DIS diagnosis.

authors

  • Folstein, MF
  • Romanoski, AJ
  • Nestadt, G
  • Chahal, Ramandeep
  • Merchant, A
  • Shapiro, S
  • Kramer, M
  • Anthony, J
  • Gruenberg, EM
  • McHugh, PR

publication date

  • November 1985