Operational criteria application does not change clinicians’ opinion on the diagnosis of mental disorder: a pre- and post-intervention validity study
Helio G. Rocha Neto,
José Luiz Martins Lessa,
Luisa Mendez Koiller
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveOur objective was to check if the ICD-10 operational criteria application changes non-operational, prototype-based diagnoses obtained in a real-life scenario.MethodsPsychiatry residents applied the diagnostic criteria of the ICD-10 as a “diagnostic test” to five outpatient patients they were already following who had a prototype-based diagnosis. Tests were used to ascertain whether changes in opinion were significant and if any of the diagnostic groups were more prone to change than others. The presen… Show more
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