title: ICD-10 checklists--a tool for clinicians' use of the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders.
abstract: The Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) checklists are a set of semistructured instruments designed for clinician assessment of mental and behavioral disorders according to ICD-10 criteria. The checklists have been produced as a package consisting of the ICD-10 Symptom Checklist and Glossary and the International Diagnostic Checklists (IDCL) for ICD-10 and Manual. This report describes the main features of the newly released World Health Organization (WHO) instruments and specifies areas of possible application by clinicians.
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Janca
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hiller
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology