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The British Journal of Psychiatry 175: 537-543 (1999)
© 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Diagnostic stability of first-episode psychosis. Comparison of ICD-10 and DSM-III-R systems

S Amin, SP Singh, J Brewin, PB Jones, I Medley and G Harrison
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust, Manchester.

BACKGROUND: The temporal stability of a diagnosis is one measure of its predictive validity. AIMS: To measure diagnostic stability in first- episode psychosis using ICD-10 and DSM-III-R. METHOD: Between 1992 and 1994 we ascertained a cohort of persons with first-episode psychosis (n = 168), assigning to each a consensus diagnosis. At three-year follow- up, longitudinal consensus diagnoses, blind to onset diagnoses, were made. Stability was measured by the positive predictive values (PPVs) of onset diagnoses. For onset schizophrenia, we also calculated sensitivity, specificity and concordance (kappa). RESULTS: First- episode ICD-10 and DSM-III-R schizophrenia had a PPV of over 80% at three years. Over one-third of cases with ICD-10 F20 schizophrenia at three years had non-schizophrenia diagnoses at onset. Manic psychoses showed the highest PPV (91%). For onset schizophrenia, both systems had high specificity (ICD-10: 89; DSM-III-R: 93%), but low sensitivity (ICD- 10: 64%; DSM-III-R: 51%) and moderate concordance (ICD-10: 0.54; DSM- III-R: 0.46). CONCLUSIONS: Bipolar disorders and schizophrenia showed the highest stability. DSM-III-R schizophrenia did not have greater stability than ICD-10 schizophrenia.


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