Detecting diagnostic error in psychiatry

Abstract: The question of diagnostic error in psychiatry involves two intertwined issues, diagnosis and error detection. You cannot detect diagnostic error unless you have a reliable, valid method of making diagnoses. Since the diagnostic process is less certain in psychiatry than in general medicine, that will make the detection of error less confidant. Psychiatric diagnostic categories are developed without laboratory tests and other biomarkers. These limitations dramatically weaken the validity of psychiatric diagnoses and render error detection an uncertain undertaking, with go gold standard such as laboratory findings and tissue analysis, as in most of general medicine. With these limitations in mind, I review the methods that are available for error detection in psychiatry.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Detecting diagnostic error in psychiatry ; volume:1 ; number:1 ; year:2014 ; pages:75-78 ; Diagnosis ; 1, Heft 1 (2014), 75-78

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Phillips, James

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/dx-2013-0032
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412011616152.585089663924
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:24 MESZ