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Does the Adequacy of Clinicians’ Diagnostic Practice in Routine Clinical Settings Matter?

Mark Zimmerman-2015-07-22-The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

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Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.The report by Nakash and colleagues raises concerns about the adequacy of the unstructured, unstandardized, clinical evaluation that is conducted in routine clinical practice. The results suggest that clinicians are not sufficiently thorough in determining whether a disorder's DSM-IV criteria are fully met. Are these findings a cause for concern?

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Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.The report by Nakash and colleagues raises concerns about the adequacy of the unstructured, unstandardized, clinical evaluation that is conducted in routine clinical practice. The results suggest that clinicians are not sufficiently thorough in determining whether a disorder's DSM-IV criteria are fully met. Are these findings a cause for concern?

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