Clinical implications of Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores
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Clinical implications of Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores.
BACKGROUND Despite the widespread use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), the clinical meaning of its total score and cut-off values used to define treatment response are unclear. AIMS To link the BPRS to Clinical Global Impression (CGI) ratings. METHOD Equipercentile linking of BPRS and CGI ratings from seven drug trials in acutely ill patients with schizophrenia (n=1979). RESU...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.187.4.366