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Tardive Dyskinesia: Fluctuating Patient or Fluctuating Rater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. A. Bergen*
Affiliation:
New South Wales, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia
D. A. Griffiths
Affiliation:
CSIRO, Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney
J. E. Rey
Affiliation:
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Department of Psychiatry
P. J. V. Beumont
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
*
Correspondence.

Summary

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is usually described as fluctuating in its clinical manifestations. We attempted to quantify fluctuations in TD using the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS). Three psychiatrists rated multiple video-recorded examinations of four outpatients with mild TD. The unexpected finding was that within-rater variability dominated within-patient variability.

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Copyright © 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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