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Assesses diagnosis reliability in clinical settings, indicating significant variability among psychiatrists.
The reliability of the diagnoses of axis II of DSM-III was examined by measuring the levels of agreement among three psychiatrists who independently examined the same patients in everyday clinical settings. The kappa coefficient levels were lower than those reported from the field trials.
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