Psychiatric Diagnostic Error

Diagnostic error in medicine: introduction.

In 1999 the Institute of Medicine (a division of the US National Academy of Sciences) published a landmark report indicating that from 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year could be attributed to preventable medical errors (Kohn et al. 1999). Although the majority of errors related to therapy, including medication and surgical errors, the report identified a significant number of diagnostic errors. ...

Diagnostic Characteristics of Child Psychiatric Service Utilizers

Sex, age and diagnostic characteristics of a consecutive series of first contact children seen over a period of one year at a psychiatric center was analyzed Most of (he referrals were for male adolescents. "No diagnosis on Axis I" was quite common, especially in the younger age group; most of them had mental retardation. "Hysteria " was uncommon, and this was the only category which was slight...

New Approaches to Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification

Recent findings in psychiatric genetics have crystallized concerns that diagnostic categories used in the clinic map poorly onto the underlying biology. If we are to harness developments in genetics and neuroscience to understand disease mechanisms and develop new treatments, we need new approaches to patient stratification that recognize the complexity and continuous nature of psychiatric trai...

Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research.

" Gen Psychiat/Vol 26, Jan 1972 Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Research/Feighner et a1 5 7 .Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses (and for secondary deprnssion) along wi th the validating r,*idpnce for these diagnostic cate,/,,ries comes from workers outside ,,ti,. group as weU as from those within; i t consists of studies o f both outpatients and inpatients, o f family studies,...

Hurried Psychiatric Labelling: A Preventable Medical Error in an Emergency Department