Abstract
The ability of six different operational definitions of schizophrenia to identify prospectively patients whose eventual prognosis would be poor was studied using data from a six-year follow-up of a series of 134 patients with functional psychoses. All six definitions were more successful at predicting a poor symptomatic outcome than a poor social outcome. Spitzer's Research Diagnostic Criteria, Carpenter's flexible criteria, and Langfeldt's criteria predicted a poor outcome as well as the original clinical diagnoses and were considerably better than the New Haven criteria, Schneider's first rank symptoms, or the computer program Catego.
Keywords
Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)Outcome (game theory)Medical diagnosisPsychiatrySafe havenPsychologyRank (graph theory)MedicineClinical psychologyPathology
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- 36
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- 1
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- 25-25
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R. E. Kendell
(1979).
Prognostic Implications of Six Alternative Definitions of Schizophrenia.
Archives of General Psychiatry
, 36
(1)
, 25-25.
https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780010031002
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- 10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780010031002