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.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Phillips, James

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/dx-2013-0032
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412011616152.585089663924
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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