title: [Anorexia nervosa in Denmark--changes in diagnosis].
abstract: Using information retrieved from the Danish Central Psychiatric Register, 1017 anonymous patients who had been admitted to Danish psychiatric institutions during 1968-1986 under a diagnosis of eating disorder ICD 8,306.50-59 were traced throughout their altogether 3419 admissions over the same time period with the aim of examining the stability of the initial diagnosis. Fifty-nine percent maintained the diagnosis of eating disorder. Diagnostic change was found in 22%. Nineteen percent had eating disorder registered only as a subsidiary diagnosis. Two-thirds were readmitted. Diagnostic changes were mainly to and from those of personality disorder or neurosis. Only six percent ended up as being diagnosed with a psychosis. The high frequencies of diagnostic changes and subsidiary diagnoses support the concept of eating disorder as a clinical syndrome with fluctuating symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Roskilde Amtssygehus Fjorden.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Møller-Madsen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nystrup
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003718:Denmark; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012042:Registries
vernacular_title: Anorexia nervosa i Danmark--diagnoseskift.