• Medicine
• Published in
  The British journal of…
  2007
• DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.106.024026

Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.

@article{BacaGarca2007DiagnosticSO,
  title={Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.},
  author={Enrique Baca-Garc{\'i}a and M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez and Ignacio Basurte-Villamor and Antonio L. Fernandez del Moral and M. A. Jim{\'e}nez-arriero and Jose L Gonzalez de Rivera and Jer{\'o}nimo S{\'a}iz-Ruiz and Maria Oquendo},
  journal={The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science},
  year={2007},
  volume={190},
  pages={
          210-6
        }
}

• Enrique Baca-García, M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, +5 authors Maria Oquendo

BACKGROUND Psychiatric disorders are among the top causes worldwide of disease burden and disability. A major criterion for validating diagnoses is stability over time. AIMS To evaluate the long-term stability of the most prevalent psychiatric diagnoses in a variety of clinical settings. METHOD A total of 34 368 patients received psychiatric care in the catchment area of one Spanish hospital (1992-2004). This study is based on 10 025 adult patients who were assessed on at least ten… CONTINUE READING

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