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Codification and Automation of Psychiatric Data: the CAPRICE System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. Valentine*
Affiliation:
Glenside Hospital, Bristol BS16 1DD

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In the United States of America, many centres are now running automated data programmes in the psychiatric field (Kline and Laska, 1968; Ulett and Sletten, 1971). In Britain, such developments have been much more restricted; prominent examples however are the North-East Scotland psychiatric register, and the Maudsley Hospital—Institute of Psychiatry check-list, together with the Camberwell register. As a clinical itemization, the ‘Present Psychiatric State’ (Wing et al., 1967) presents a comprehensive listing of over 400 symptoms, the evaluation being confined to the previous four weeks of the patient's experience. This is a valuable research tool, but for routine clinical history requirements it would be both too detailed and, by definition, too limited in scope.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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