title: [Criteral for assessing quantitative disability in expert determination of functional physical disorders. Review of the literature].
abstract: The assessment of individuals with somatoform disorders seeking payments or compensation is a major challenge for psychiatrists, insurers and the social welfare system. It is difficult to examine these disorders objectively and to quantify the impairment people experience in their work or private life. In order to develop more rational criteria for the assessment of these patients, we first reviewed the relevant literature and extracted the criteria mentioned by the respective authors. We then grouped these criteria in clinically plausible dimensions in order to develop a list of parameters that could help psychiatric experts to analyse the impairment more objectively and to help institutions in evaluating the assessments.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für forensische Psychiatrie der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik der LMU München.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stadtland
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gündel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schütt
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nedopil
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology; D035881:Compensation and Redress / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology