Subtypes of Schizophrenia: A Cluster Analytic Approach
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Subtypes of schizophrenia: a cluster analytic approach.
OBJECTIVES To identify empirical subtypes of schizophrenia, based upon the symptoms recorded over the duration of the illness, and to validate the resulting clusters against other systems that are used for subtyping schizophrenia. METHOD Data for 55 symptoms of schizophrenia over the history of the illness from 107 chronic schizophrenia patients were analyzed using hierarchical cluster analys...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370304801010