Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders (section F0)--results of the ICD-10 field trial.
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.
Max-Bürger-Hospital, Berlin (West), Germany.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic