Validation study reveals low diagnostic agreement between the Diagnostic Interview Schedule and clinical assessment in community residents, indicating structured tools cannot replace clinicians.
A psychiatric examination was conducted on 810 community dwelling subjects previously given a diagnosis derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). The agreement in allocating subjects to a particular disorder was never high enough to encourage the confident replacement of a psychiatric diagnosis with a DIS diagnosis.
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