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The British Journal of Psychiatry 140: 378-383 (1982)
© 1982 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

On evaluating the severity of depression: an experimental study of psychiatrists

HU Fisch, KR Hammond and CR Joyce

This study extends earlier work on the evaluation of depression by general physicians, and compares the results obtained with that group with those from a group of experienced psychiatrists. Differences within each group were larger than those between them. In neither group were individuals able to describe their own diagnostic processes with great accuracy, but psychiatrists were, as expected, somewhat more consistent than general physicians. They became even more so when allowed to select their own cues; of which, however, they made use of a smaller number. These tended to be of a specific rather than (as with the physicians) of a general nature.


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