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The Concordance Between Assessment at Interview of Objective and Subjective Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Richard Crocket
Affiliation:
Ingrebourne Centre, St. George's Hospital, Hornchurch, Essex
Christine Hassall
Affiliation:
Ingrebourne Centre, St. George's Hospital, Hornchurch, Essex

Extract

How useful to the psychiatrist are subjective complaints by a patient?

The question of objective appraisal was reviewed by Harris (1938, 1954) in connection with follow-up studies, initially of in-patients, and latterly of day-patients, at the Maudsley Hospital.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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