1. Organic, Including Symptomatic, Mental Disorders (SectionF0) - Results of the ICD-10 Field Trial
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H. Gutzmann, E.-M. Neumann, and H. Krüger
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Statistics as Topic ,Neurocognitive Disorders ,Goodness of fit ,Organic mental disorders ,medicine ,Humans ,Multicenter Studies as Topic ,Dementia ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Psychiatry ,Reliability (statistics) ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,Main diagnosis ,Operationalization ,business.industry ,ICD-10 ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Natural history ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Research Design ,Female ,business ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
The natural history of classification systems for the organic mental disorders from ICD-8 through ICD-10 and DSM-III is presented. Out of a total of 31 cases the 6 with a main diagnosis of the F0-section of ICD-10 are described and field trial results analysed in terms of classification errors, goodness of fit, difficulty, and interrater-reliability. Specific categories (instead of "collective categories") were used more frequently and fewer classification errors made on the basis of ICD-10 as compared with ICD-9. The authors suggest that an operationalized differentiation of dementia as one of the core categories would further increase the reliability and clinical practicability of this section.
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- 1990
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