title: Mutual concordance between different diagnostic criteria for depression.
abstract: 200 patients with an ICD diagnosis of 295, 296, 297 or 298 at their first admission were rated positive or negative for a series of different diagnostic criteria for functional psychoses. Criteria with a very wide concept of affective disorder like the VRC or the DSM-III or Taylor or St. Louis are in contrast to more narrowly defined concepts in RDC or ICD. Because of these differences there is a great need for more effective validation studies based on the simultaneous application of different diagnostic criteria. This has been called the 'polydiagnostic approach'.
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D013577:Syndrome