Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents: results of the ICD-10 field trial.
Of the numerous changes made in the classification of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in ICD-10 the most important are described. In an evaluation of the revised scheme, 7 raters from 2 facilities classified 40 case histories with both ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes. For ICD-10 and 4 character codes the level of agreement was 56% (ICD-9: 60%). As expected, 3-character codes yielded better agreement (ICD-10: 71%; ICD-9: 72%). Within-facility agreement was roughly the same for each. The lowest levels of agreement for a given category were for mixed disorders of conduct and emotions (F92) and depressive disorders (F31, F43). The reasons for this are discussed.
Department of Child Psychiatry, Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim, FRG.
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D000293:Adolescent; D001519:Behavior; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic